AWS ‐ IAM (Identity & Access Management)

• Secure access control to Authenticate and Authorize users with our accounts
• Login with Root user to create account credentials and create another aws account
• Never use root account to launch any aws resources as root user is a powerful user

Authentication - who are you?

• Verifying the identity of the user

Authorization - what you can?

• Specify Access control policies

AWS Identity Types

• To control access to resources and services