IAM & S3 Flashcards
What are the components that makeup IAM?
Users
Groups
Policies
Roles
What is a group in IAM?
A collection of users. Each user inherits the permission of the group
What is a policy in IAM?
Policies are made up of documents called policy documents and are formatted in JSON. They give permissions to what a user, group ,role can do
What is a role in IAM?
You can create roles and assign to AWS resources
What is a role used for?
Allow an AWS resource access to another resource or service
What permissions do users have when first created?
None
What are new users assigned when created?
Access Key ID
Secret access Keys
Can you use access key and secret access keys to login to the AWS console?
No, they are used with APIs to provide programmatic access
How many time can you view the access key ID and secret access keys
Once when created
How can you better secure IAM
Use MFA for root create and customize password rotation policy
Is S3 object-based or block-based?
Object
What are the size ranges for S3?
0-5TB
Can you have two buckets with the same name?
No
What is the S3 URL format?
region.amazonaws.com/bucket name
Is S3 suitable for an OS or DB?
No
What is the status code for a successful put?
HTTP 200
How can you protect against accidental deletion?
MFA delete
What are the S3 fundamentals
Key Value
Version
Metadata
Subresources -
ACL
Torrents