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IAM: Master account

IAM: Master account - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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IAM: Master account

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- [Instructor] In the shared responsibility model that AWS employs, there is one area that remains the responsibility of the customer regardless of the type of service category. This is the customer account. Roles, permissions and access configuration. IAM is short for identity and access management. It is a management service provided by Amazon that allows control of the access and permissions to the AWS resources and services in the account. It's important to understand some of the basics of IAM. When a new AWS account is initially set up, it first creates what is referred to as the master account. The initial user first created and associated with this account is the master user. This is a little like root on the Unix based operating system. This master user has access to everything including all of the billing information. It makes sense to keep this master account secured. It's not recommended to use this master account…

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