Summary and Quiz

Explore critical AWS security services such as Identity and Access Management, audit tools, encryption key management, and data protection services. Understand how to use IAM users, roles, and policies, while gaining insights into AWS compliance tools. This lesson prepares you to secure AWS resources effectively and tests your knowledge with a quiz.

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Test your knowledge

Let’s look at some key takeaways from this section and then we’ll put our learnings to a test by attempting a quiz.

Summary

Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this section:

IAM: IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a security and management service that provides external entities with secure access to AWS services or resources within the AWS account. It takes care of both authentication and authorization.
IAM policy: An IAM policy is a JSON document that allows us to define the scope of permissions of the principal entities. There are six types of IAM policies:

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