This course explores some of the security best practices when using user groups and roles and how these can help you secure access to your resources more effectively. It also includes guided demos from the AWS platform to give you a practical understanding of the topics covered throughout the course.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to manage multiple users with IAM User Groups
- Get a foundational understanding of IAM roles
- Understand how to use AWS service roles to access AWS resources on your behalf
- Learn how to use IAM user roles to grant temporary access for users
- Understand how to use roles for federated access
Intended Audience
- AWS administrator
- Security engineer
- Security architect
- Anyone who's looking to increase their knowledge of the IAM service in preparation for an AWS certification
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, you should already have a basic understanding of AWS IAM and what the service is used for, as well as knowledge of policy types such as managed, customer, and in-line. It would also be advantageous if you had some basic hands-on experience of AWS and some of its core services, but it is not essential.
Hello and welcome to this course where I shall be looking at how to control access to your resources using IAM User Groups and Roles when using the AWS Identity & Access Management Service, commonly referred to as IAM. I shall be looking at some of the security best practices when using User Groups and Roles and how these can help you secure access to your resources more effectively.
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The information set out in this course has been designed for those who may be in one of the following roles: an AWS administrator, security engineer, security architect, and also anyone who's looking to increase their knowledge of the IAM service in preparation for an AWS certification.
By the end of this course, you will have a greater understanding of when and why you should use User Groups and Roles within IAM and how they help you control access to resources. You will also learn which type of IAM role to use and when.
As an intermediate level course, you should already have a basic understanding of AWS IAM and what the service is used for, in addition to policy types such as managed, customer and in-line. It would also be advantageous if you had some basic hands-on experience of AWS and some of it's core services, but it is not essential.
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Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.
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He is AWS certified and accredited in addition to being a published author covering topics across the AWS landscape.
In January 2016 Stuart was awarded ‘Expert of the Year Award 2015’ from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
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