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Practical AWS Networking

You're reading from   Practical AWS Networking Build and manage complex networks using services such as Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Direct Connect, and Amazon Route 53

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788398299
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mitesh Soni Mitesh Soni
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Identity and access management


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.

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The following are the services that we have used in this book that work with IAM: Amazon VPC, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route53, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and so on. To get more detailed information...

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