IDENTITY AND SECURITY
AWS Identity and Access Management
Defines AWS identities, roles, policies, and authorization for AWS API actions and resources.
Also appears as
AWS IAMIAMCHOOSE IT WHEN
What job does it solve?
You need to control who or what can perform AWS actions.
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Where does it stop?
It is being used as an application-customer directory; Cognito serves that different identity boundary.
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Lessons that mention it
- Lesson 01Who is responsible—and what can fail?
- Lesson 03Why is this AWS request allowed or denied?
- Lesson 04Give people temporary access—not permanent keys
- Lesson 05Control access across AWS accounts
- Lesson 07Choose the right private connection
- Lesson 08Protect an application in layers
- Lesson 09Classify data before choosing controls
- Lesson 10Who can decrypt this data?
- Lesson 15Choose where your code should run
- Lesson 32Ingestion frequency, streaming, transfer, and secure entry
- Lesson 33Transformation, processing, and governed data lakes
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