IAM

AWS IAM is an essential service that enables granular control over access to AWS resources, including Amazon EC2. IAM facilitates secure management of users, groups, roles, and permissions, allowing you to define who can do what in your AWS environment. Users in IAM can be people or services interacting with AWS, while groups are a collection of users sharing the same set of permissions. IAM roles, on the other hand, are another kind of identity with defined permissions that can be assumed by users, applications, or services.

IAM in the context of Amazon EC2

IAM relevance in an EC2-specific context is immense. With IAM, you can define who can launch or terminate your EC2 instances, who can start or stop the instances, or to the level of who can modify your system attributes. For example, you can use IAM roles to grant permissions to applications running on your EC2 instances, allowing them to access other AWS services without the need to manage security credentials. Instance...