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13-11 AWS IAM

Last updated Aug 17, 2023 Edit Source

# AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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35 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny these users access to AWS resources.

# IAM Policies

JSON documents that grant permissions for a specific user, group, or role to access services. Policies are attached to IAM Identities

# IAM Permission

The API actions that can or cannot be performed. They are represented in the IAM Policy document


# IAM Identities

# IAM Users

End users who log into the console or interact with AWS resources programmatically or via clicking UI interfaces

# IAM Groups

Group up your Users so they all share permission levels of the group eg. Administrators, Developers, Auditors

# IAM Roles

Roles grant AWS resources permissions to specific AWS API actions Associate policies to a Role and then assign it to an AWS resource