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Configuring IAM

In this chapter, we will be covering the core security service of AWS—AWS IAM. Identity and Access Management, referred to as IAM, is a central part, which surrounds all AWS services. For an enterprise, big or small, data security is the most important aspect that needs to be tightened. In this chapter, we will demonstrate how we can create and administer IAM users, groups, roles, and policies using AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK – Java, and CloudFormation.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Policies
Roles
Groups
Users

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the most important service of the AWS cloud. It is used to provide access to other AWS resources. Each AWS resource has access restrictions and permissions that are being governed by IAM. It allows us to provide granular-level permissions to users or AWS resources...

Key benefits

Efficiently build a highly scalable and reliable cloud environment for your applications with AWS

Leverage the various AWS components and services to build a secure, reliable, and robust environment to host your applications on

This quick-start guide will quickly enhance your skills to develop highly scalable services

Description

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design. The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.

What you will learn

Find out about IAM to access AWS services securely

Explore EC2 (virtual server) and scale up/down your application based on heavy traffic

Learn about unlimited data storage service S3 and host a static website within minutes

Get to grips with Relational Databases and NoSQL databases under the AWS ecosystem

Understand the caching mechanism

Get to know about notifications service and monitor AWS services

Secure and troubleshoot your AWS architecture

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