Utilizing AWS IAM for user access management
- Identity Access Management (IAM) is a service provided by AWS that helps in centralised control and access management to users through IAM users, groups and roles.
- Admin can create custom IAM policies or select from the existing IAM policies which can be attached to particular users, groups or roles thus implementing the principle of least privilege.
- Using IAM user instead of the root user to perform all actions on the AWS is advisable unless any service is accessible only to the root user.
AWS Security Best Practices
The AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is a cloud service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store your data securely. You can access this service through your IAM role or root user account. In this article, we’ll see different security measures to protect your data from fraudulent access using AWS Security Best Practices. Please note that, due to the extensive nature of security practices, we’ll cover a selection of key measures in this article.