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Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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- When utilizing the cloud to house any part of your technical infrastructure you must first consider the security impacts of moving your resources onto the cloud. Unlike the on-premises data center that is protected by the virtual being within your physical reach, data centers hosting your cloud resources are in an undisclosed data centers managed by AWS. By now you've probably surmised it's not the best idea to provide unrestricted access to your IT resources to everyone in your organization, but is there an easy way to provide extremely granular access permissions to every user in service but at the same time make them easy to manage? Thankfully AWS has a service called Identity Access Management commonly referred to as IAM which helps you do just that. Identity and Access Management, or IAM, is a free service provided by AWS that enables you to manage access to services and resources on the AWS cloud. You can create and manage users and groups as well as set permissions to allow…

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