AWS IAM

Introduction

AWS IAM Identity and Access Management 是 AWS 用于 Access Control 的服务，可以实现对于所有 AWS resource 的：

• authentication
• authorization

IAM features

• Shared access to your AWS account
• Granular permissions
• Secure access to AWS resources for applications that run on Amazon EC2
• Multi-factor authentication -> mfa
• Identity federation
• PCI DSS Compliance
• Eventually Consistent

How IAM works

Identities

Users

User groups

Roles

Access Management

Policies and permissions

Managing IAM policies

Reference

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html