Summary

Now that you've made it through this chapter, you should be familiar with the basics of AWS access management. Though we've reviewed the high-level components we need in order to be conversant on this topic and move forward, it is prudent to be cautious when it comes to access management and entitlements. Many security incidents that stem from excessive entitlements having been applied in an environment in the name of expediency. As such, consider this chapter a primer on learning how to learn more deeply about this topic, and consider the access management challenges that will surface throughout the remainder of this book.

The next chapter will see us shift from purely focusing on AWS IAM and looking at AWS as an infrastructure as a service offering. AWS Cognito is a service designed to offer applications simplified identity services, including user management, authentication, and authorization. Whereas we will reference many of the topics we introduced at the...