Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Identity and Access Management ( IAM ) Identity management, also known as identity and access management, is a framework of policies and technologies to ensure that the right users have the appropriate access to technology resources. User groups: An IAM user group is a collection of IAM users . User groups let you specify permissions for multiple users, which can make it easier to manage the permissions for those users. Users: An IAM user is a resource in IAM that has associated credentials and permissions. An IAM user can represent a person or an application that uses its credentials to make AWS requests. This is typically referred to as a service account. Roles: An IAM role is an IAM identity that you can create in your account that has specific permissions. An IAM role is similar to an IAM user, in that it is an AWS identity with permission policies that determine what the identity can and cannot do in AWS. Policies: IAM pol...