AWS Identity and Access Management

What is the use of AWS IAM?

AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to manage access to your AWS resources. IAM allows you to create and manage users and groups, assign permissions to them, and control their access to AWS services and resources.

AWS IAM provides a centralized way to manage access to your AWS resources, making it easy to control who can access what and what they can do with it. IAM can be used to manage and scale workload and workforce access securely supporting your agility and innovation in AWS.

AWS IAM allows you to:

1. Create and manage users, groups, and roles: You can create and manage IAM identities such as users, groups, and roles and define the permissions each identity has to access AWS resources.
2. Control access to AWS resources: IAM lets you specify granular permissions for each identity, giving you fine-grained control over who can access which resources and what actions they can perform on them.
3. Enforce security best practices: IAM enables you to enforce security best practices such as the principle of least privilege, which limits access to only what is needed to perform specific tasks.
4. Simplify access management: IAM allows you to manage access to AWS resources centrally, reducing the complexity of access management and making it easier to audit and review access.