Identity Access Management (IAM)
Explore AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to secure your AWS Lambda functions and resources. This lesson helps you understand creating users, groups, roles, and policies, configuring MFA, and best practices for access control. You'll learn how to manage permissions efficiently and protect your AWS environment through IAM features and tools like CloudTrail auditing.
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What is IAM?
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a service provided by AWS that allows us to manage access to AWS resources securely. IAM lets us control who has permission to do what within our AWS account. It’s a fundamental component of AWS security and plays a crucial role in ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our AWS resources.
Here are some key features and concepts of AWS IAM.
Users: We can create IAM users, each with a unique username and set of credentials, such as access keys or passwords. Users represent individuals or entities that require access to our AWS resources.
Groups: IAM groups are collections of IAM users. ...