IAM Authentication

IAM authentication in AWS includes the following identities:

• Users
• Groups
• Roles
• Temporary security credentials
• Account root user

Identities are used to provide authentication for people, applications, resources, services, and processes in your AWS account. Identities represent the user that interacts with the AWS resources based on authentication and authorization to perform various actions and tasks. We will look at each one of the identities in detail.

IAM user

You create an IAM user in AWS as an entity to allow people to sign into the AWS Management Console or to make requests to AWS services from your programs using CLI or API. An IAM user can be a person, an application, or an AWS service that interacts...