Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Summary

The system controlling who (or what) can do what within your cloud account — policies, roles, and permissions govern access to every single resource, making IAM arguably the single most important security surface in the cloud.

• 1Create an IAM user with limited permissions instead of using a root/admin account for daily work.
• 2Write a basic IAM policy granting access to only a specific resource type.
• 3Learn why root account credentials should be locked away and rarely, if ever, used directly.