Identity and Access Management Flashcards
What should you do to increase your root account security?
Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
What is a proper definition of IAM Roles?
An IAM entity that defines a set of permissions for making AWS service requests that will be used by AWS Services
What are IAM policies?
JSON documents to define Users, Groups, or Roles Permissions
Under the shared responsibility model, what is the customer responsible for in IAM?
Assigning users proper IAM Policies
What is IAM Credentials Report?
An IAM Security Tool
IAM Credentials Report
A report that lists all your accounts users and the status of their various credentials.
IAM Access Advisors
Access advisors shows the service permissions granted to a user and when those services were last accessed.
You can use this information to be revise your policies.
Users
Mapped to a physical user; has a password for AWS Console
Groups
Contains users only
Policies
JSON document that outlines permissions for users or groups.
Roles
For EC2 Instances or AWE services
Security
MFA + Password Policy
AWS CLI
Manage your AWS services using the command-line
AWS SDK
Manage your AWS services using a programming language.
Access Keys
Access AWS using the CLI or SDK
