It provides the facility to configure authentication and policy-based authorization. You can use AWS IAM services with the use of AWS Management Console, AWS command line tools, AWS SDKs, and IAM HTTPS API.
With AWS IAM, it is easier to provide administration access and use resources with proper authentication and authorization. One of the important features available is multifactor authentication. Using multifactor authentication, you need to provide a special code given by a configured virtual or physical device in addition to the password. This feature makes access to the AWS account extremely secure.
One of the main reasons why AWS Identity and Access Management is popular is because of its ability to integrate with AWS services.
The following are the services that we have used in this book that work with IAM: Amazon VPC, Amazon CloudFront, AWS...
