
Deep dive into the IAM concepts and understand it with practicle hands-on.
🎯 In my recent interviews, I encountered lot of IAM related questions including scenario based questions in AWS. For example "an IAM user has FullAdmin, access to AWS account, yet he/she not able to access the S3 buckets, what must be the reason?" So I deep dive into the IAM concepts and understand it with practicle hands-on. 📌 IAM User: Represents a person, service or app needing access. To access any services in AWS >> grant user permissions >> to provide that permission, first assign "IAM Policies" to specific user or groups. 📌 IAM Groups: Collection of users with common permissions and roles 📌 IAM Roles: Temporary access given to users, apps, or services. Increases the security Permissions for IAM roles comes from IAM policy (attach it roles, AWS service, Users, Groups) ✅ Implement the "Principle of Least Privilege": If your user needs access to do their jobs, give them access, but take away the access that they don't need. 📌 IAM Policies and Permissions: Permissions are provide fi
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