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AWS Identity and Access Management

Security, Identity, & Compliance

Securely manage access to services and resources with IAM

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Production use

Define users, roles, service permissions, and least-privilege access boundaries.

Before production

  • Use roles over users
  • MFA
  • permission boundaries
  • access analyzer
  • credential rotation
  • no long-lived secrets in apps.