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| courtesy- AWS Docs |
IAM allows you to manage users and their level of access to the AWS console. It is important to understand IAM and how it works for administrating a company's AWS account in real life.
What are the key features of IAM?
- Centralized control of your AWS account.
- Shared access to AWS account.
- Granular Permissions.
- Identity Federation(including Active Directory, Facebook, etc)
- MFA(Multifactor Authentication)
- Provide temporary access to users and devices where ever necessary.
- Allow password rotation policy.
What are the key terminologies of IAM?
- USERS are people or employees of a company.
- GROUPS are a collection of users. Users in a group will inherit the permissions of the respective group.
- POLICIES give permissions to what a user/group/role will able to do. Policies are made up of JSON (Javascript object notation) format documents.
- ROLES are created by the root account user and assign them to AWS resources such as EC2, S3, etc
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