What are some of the elements of aws iam?



  • Link to AWS documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html

    AWS IAM - Identity And Access Management, this is not a new concept there are many vendors who have their own IAM.

    What are some key elements that make up AWS IAM?

    Principle - The thing requesting access

    The entity or thing, being Users, roles, federated users, and applications are all AWS principals.

    Request - What, who, how

    • Actions(or operations) that the principal wants to perform
    • Resources upon which the actions are performed
    • Principal information, including the environment from which the request was made

    Authorization Data, Environment Data, and Resource Data, all make up the request.

    Authentication - Logging in with your credentials

    This can be via the console, API, or CLI.

    Authorization - Are you allowed to do what you are requesting

    Actions - the things that you can do to a resource, such as viewing, creating, editing, and deleting that resource

    After authentication and authorization you can perform actions on the resource(s)

    Resouces - Amazon EC2 instance, an IAM user, and an Amazon S3 bucket

    AWS resources.


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