Mastering AWS: Featuring IAM

Learn how AWS IAM users represent individuals or applications, granting access keys, passwords, and permissions to resources, with group and individual policy controls.

Create a new AWS IAM user, attach S3 full access policy, and verify access by logging in as that user to S3 and then to a different service.

Learn how IAM groups grant or deny access by applying policies to groups, add users, and note that groups cannot be nested while users can belong to multiple groups.

Understand how IAM roles delegate access to AWS resources with temporary security credentials for short-term, cross-account, or external use.

Create an IAM role by selecting service as the trusted entity and attaching policies, then name the role. Review permissions, trust relationships, and session duration options to manage access.

This lecture explains what an iam policy is, how it defines permissions for users, groups, or roles, and how allow and deny rules shape access with visual editor or json.

Create an S3 policy using the visual editor in the AWS Management Console, allowing head bucket and list all my buckets, then review, name, and save policy versions.

Install and update the AWS command line tools on an EC2 instance, verify the version, and run a simple S3 command. Explore a deeper S3 dive in the next section.

Discover Cloud9 as a cloud-based IDE to quickly spin up a t2 micro instance, use the bash terminal, and manage files and an S3 bucket within AWS.

Learn to manage iam users with the aws cli by creating, listing, and deleting users. Add users to groups, verify permissions, and remove policies.

Learn to manage AWS CLI groups by listing, creating, attaching and detaching policies, including DynamoDB full access, and verify results in both the CLI and the management console.

Conclude this IAM course by thanking learners, inviting reviews and forum feedback, and directing them to bonus content and next topics.