AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Amazon in 2012 introduces AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for EC2 [1]. In February introduced Managed Policies by AWS[2] and since November 2016 there are 10 different policies bases on job functions: AdministratorAccess
(This policy grants full access to all AWS services, similar to root role in Unix systems), Billing
, Data Scientist
, Database Administrator
, Developer Power User
, Network Administrator
, Security Auditor
, Support User
, System Administrator and View Only User
[3][4]
Examples policies
aws:RequestedRegion
(April 2018) [5]iam:ChangePassword
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess
Related terms
- SigV4
- AWS IAM Access Analyzer (Dec 2019)
See also
aws iam
[create-user
,create-group, get-user
,list-users
|list-policies
|list-attached-user-policies
|attach-user-policy
|list-attached-user-policies
|list-roles
|get-account-summary
|put-group-policy | put-role-policy | put-user-policy
|create-login-profile
|aws iam delete-virtual-mfa-device
|aws iam list-virtual-mfa-devices
|aws iam create-saml-provider
|aws iam list-account-aliases
|aws iam create-role | aws iam change-password| enable-mfa-device | list-instance-profiles
- Single sign-on: Okta, Red Hat Single Sign-On, Keycloak, SAML, ADFS, Access Management Magic Quadrant, Oracle Access Manager, AWS SSO, Azure Active Directory, Federated authentication, Google Workspace: set up SSO via SAML for Amazon Web Services, Login with, Microsoft account, Shibboleth
- IAM: AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Identity and Access Management, Google Cloud IAM, Azure IAM, SailPoint, CyberArk, CIAM, ForgeRock,
iam:ChangePassword
,aws iam
,AdministratorAccess
, Context keys, IAM Access Analyzer, AWS policy, AWS managed policies,IAMUserChangePassword
, AWS Roles, List of AWS policies, Resource-based policy,aws-iam-authenticator
, IRSA, RDS Authentication,AccessDenied
, AWS Authentication, AWS IAM external access analyzer - AWS, Amazon Managed Services, AWS Management & Governance, computing, security, networking, AWS compliance, AWS Outposts AWS Free Tier, AWS certifications, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Config, IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost Management, AWS Budgets, AWS Organizations, AWS dev: (CodeStar, Cloud9), AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS Resource Access Manager, AWS Quick Starts, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Elemental MediaStore, AWS Enterprise support, AWS support, AWS Professional Services Consultants, AWS Cloud Map, AWS Marketplace, AWS CLI, AWS Management Console, AWS acceptable use policy, amazonaws.com, Quotas, AWS Support plans, AWS Resource Explorer, AWS Managed Services (AMS), AWS savings, AWS Nitro System, AWS Activate, Serverless, AWS timeline
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