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Explore key Identity and Access Management (IAM) concepts such as users, roles, policies, and tools like Access Analyzer and AWS Organizations. Learn how these components provide secure and manageable access to AWS resources. Validate your knowledge through a quiz to reinforce understanding and ensure mastery of AWS IAM essentials.

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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 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 ...