AWS IAM: The Cloud Engineer's Security Handbook

Learn how AWS IAM creates a secure platform for deploying applications in isolated cloud accounts, enabling multiple team members to manage resources with a free security service.

Learn how AWS IAM simplifies identity and access management by centrally managing users, groups, credentials, and granular permissions, with features like shared access, MFA, federation, SSO, and cross-account access.

Sign up for an AWS account and log in as the root user to access the management console and explore the AWS free tier.

Explore AWS IAM identities, review their features, and learn how to create an IAM identity after setting up and logging into an AWS account.

Explore AWS IAM identities, including the root account, IAM users, groups, and roles, and learn how to provision users, assign permissions, and use temporary credentials for access to AWS resources.

Provision a new AWS IAM user via the management console using the add user wizard, select programmatic and console access, set a password, and review permissions before creation.

Create an AWS iam user, sign in with iam credentials, and observe how lack of permissions blocks ec2 provisioning, illustrating permission setup in the console.

Create groups, attach policies, and add users to inherit group permissions. Detach policies, revoke access, and delete groups when no longer needed, using the AWS management console.

Master how AWS IAM roles grant permissions for users, services, and federated identities, and provision them in the AWS management console with trust relationships and service-specific access.

Create and manage AWS IAM users, groups, and roles, then complete a hands-on activity to assign group permissions and share the created identities for AWS resources.

Learn to deploy and manage IAM users and groups, and use IAM identities to access AWS resources.

Master access management with iam, enable and disable access keys, and craft custom iam policies, then launch an ec2 ubuntu instance and connect securely via aws cli and ssh.

Learn to install and configure the aws cli, manage access keys and iam permissions, and use aws s3 ls to explore buckets securely.

Learn how to enable or disable AWS access keys from the IAM management console, including deactivating, reactivating, and verifying effects on the AWS CLI.

IAM roles grant temporary permissions to AWS resources from EC2 instances, attach S3 full access policies, and avoid storing credentials locally, unlike IAM users.

Create a custom AWS IAM policy in JSON to allow starting, stopping, and security group actions on a specific EC2 instance, attach it to a user, and verify.

Learn to create custom AWS IAM policies using visual editor or JSON, attach them to users or groups, and enforce region-based access through condition keys.

Review how to access AWS resources with IAM roles and IAM user access keys, and create region-restricted S3 policies in the visual editor.

Secure AWS IAM identities and resources by using IAM features to manage permissions and access, building on custom policies and resource access learned in the previous module.

Learn to enable multi-factor authentication and enforce strong AWS IAM password policies, including minimum length, uppercase, lowercase, numeric, and non alphanumeric requirements, plus expiration after 60 days and reuse prevention.

Enable multi-factor authentication for AWS IAM users using a virtual MFA device with Google Authenticator, including QR code setup, two codes, and enhanced sign-in security.

Explore how to use the AWS IAM policy simulator to test and troubleshoot user and resource policies, verify permissions for services like S3, and refine access with sample policies.

Explore AWS IAM web identity federation, logging in with Google, Facebook, or Amazon to obtain credentials via assume role with web identity. See how tokens grant limited Amazon S3 access.

Learn to create and manage encryption keys with AWS KMS, assign IAM user permissions, and encrypt and decrypt EBS volumes using a created key in a chosen region.

Adopt best practices for AWS IAM to secure identities and access by using groups and least privilege, enforcing strong passwords, MFA, roles for applications, and regular credential rotation.

Recap the module's lessons on enabling MFA for IAM users, creating a strong password policy, using the policy simulator, web identity federation, KMS encryption, and AWS IAM best practices.

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