Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Question 1

3 options to access AWS

Answer 1

1, AWS Management Console
2, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
3, AWS Software Developer Kit (SDK)

Question 2

What is Cloudshell

Answer 2

Cloudshell is basically a terminal in the cloud of AWS

Question 3

What are IAM Roles

Answer 3

Some AWS services will need to perform actions on your behalf. To do so, we will assign permissions to AWS service with IAM Roles

Question 4

2 IAM Security Tools

Answer 4

• IAM Credentials Report (account-level)
• IAM Access Advisor (user-level)

Question 5

What is IAM Credentials Report?

Answer 5

An account-level report that lists all your account’s users and the status of their various credentials

Question 6

What is IAM Access Advisor?

Answer 6

IAM Access Advisor shows the service permissions granted to a user and when those services were last accessed