Data security and governance
Data security and governance are very important aspects of cloud storage solutions and applications, whether they are web pages, file storage, ML applications, or any other application utilizing cloud data storage. It is of absolute importance that the data is protected while being at rest in storage or in transit. In addition, access controls should be applied to different users based on the privileges needed for data access. All the AWS data storage services mentioned previously have various security, protection, access management, and governance features. We will discuss these features in the following sections.
IAM
In order to be able to access AWS resources, we need an AWS account and to authenticate every time we log in. Once we have logged into AWS, we need permission to access the AWS resources. AWS IAM is used to attach permission policies to users, groups, and roles. These permission policies govern and control the access to AWS resources...