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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Complete Study Guide: Secure Your AWS Account with Confidence—In Just 6 to 8 Hours
This guide provides an in-depth explanation of AWS IAM, a service used to securely manage access to AWS resources.The guide covers the full spectrum of IAM capabilities in AWS,
IAM Concepts: Basics of users, groups, roles, policies, and permissions.
Authentication & Authorization: Differences, mechanisms, and security layers like MFA.
Identity Management: How to manage individual users, federated identities, and service accounts.
Access Control: Use of identity-based, resource-based, and inline policies; principle of least privilege.
Role Assumption: Creating roles, trust relationships, temporary credentials, and cross-account access.
Security Best Practices: Protecting the root user, using MFA, rotating credentials, and enforcing permission boundaries.
Monitoring & Auditing: Tools like CloudTrail, Access Analyzer, Credential Reports, and IAM Access Advisor.
Policy Simulation & Troubleshooting: Using the policy simulator to test permissions and debug access issues.
Programmatic Access: Using AWS CLI, SDKs, and APIs to automate and manage IAM configurations.
Each section is backed by practical examples and real-world use cases, making it suitable for beginners to advanced users.
The guide includes over 250 AWS CLI commands,
User, Group, and Role Management
MFA and Credential Operations
Policy Creation, Attachment, and Simulation
Access Analysis and Monitoring
CloudTrail Setup and Logging
IAM Troubleshooting and Debugging
These commands are often accompanied
Sample JSON policies
Trust policy documents
Session-based role assumption flows
IAM Concepts: Basics of users, groups, roles, policies, and permissions.
Authentication & Authorization: Differences, mechanisms, and security layers like MFA.
Identity Management: How to manage individual users, federated identities, and service accounts.
Access Control: Use of identity-based, resource-based, and inline policies; principle of least privilege.
Role Assumption: Creating roles, trust relationships, temporary credentials, and cross-account access.
Security Best Practices: Protecting the root user, using MFA, rotating credentials, and enforcing permission boundaries.
Monitoring & Auditing: Tools like CloudTrail, Access Analyzer, Credential Reports, and IAM Access Advisor.
Policy Simulation & Troubleshooting: Using the policy simulator to test permissions and debug access issues.
Programmatic Access: Using AWS CLI, SDKs, and APIs to automate and manage IAM configurations.
Each section is backed by practical examples and real-world use cases, making it suitable for beginners to advanced users.
The guide includes over 250 AWS CLI commands,
User, Group, and Role Management
MFA and Credential Operations
Policy Creation, Attachment, and Simulation
Access Analysis and Monitoring
CloudTrail Setup and Logging
IAM Troubleshooting and Debugging
These commands are often accompanied
Sample JSON policies
Trust policy documents
Session-based role assumption flows
67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 26, 2025
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