IAM Best Practices you should know
Before we wrap up, let’s review some of the best practices you’ll find helpful to secure AWS resources.
- Avoid AWS account root user access keys: Never use your AWS account root user access key for programmatic requests. It provides complete access to all the resources for all AWS services, and you cannot reduce permissions associated with it.
- Manage user groups to assign permissions to IAM users: Instead of defining permissions to individual IAM users, it’s better to create user groups related to job functions by defining relevant permissions to each user group.
- Build individual IAM users: Build individual users for anyone who needs access to your AWS account.
- Grant least privilege: Many AWS resources can have their access policy attached directly. Optimally use both sides of the least privilege principle to achieve favorable outcomes.
- Create permissions with AWS managed policies: Use AWS-managed policies to provide your employees with the permissions needed to get started quickly.
- Validate your policies: It’s the best practice to validate the policies that you create. You can perform policy validation for when you start and edit JSON policies.
- Enable MFA: Use multi-factor authentication that adds an extra layer of security to interact with the AWS API.
- Apply strong passwords: Configure the account password policy to apply strong passwords.
Amazon DynamoDB – Identity and Access Management(IAM)
Security in the cloud remains one of the main barriers to cloud adoption. For security operations and development teams to follow security best practices ensuring a smooth transition. AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) is one of the most widely used security platforms for data protection. It follows an incredibly granular approach in providing permissions and access control within your environments.
In this article, let’s take a closer look at AWS IAM, its features, and learn how it works.
Let’s begin by understanding what AWS IAM is.