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Learning AWS IoT

You're reading from   Learning AWS IoT Effectively manage connected devices on the AWS cloud using services such as AWS Greengrass, AWS button, predictive analytics and machine learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788396110
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with AWS IoT 2. Connecting IoT Devices to AWS IoT Platform FREE CHAPTER 3. Optimizing IoT Computing Using AWS Greengrass 4. Building Local AWS Lambda with AWS Greengrass 5. Expanding IoT Capabilities with AWS IoT Button 6. Visualizing AWS IoT Data 7. Building Predictive Analytics for AWS IoT 8. Securing AWS IoT 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing AWS IAM


AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is one of the Amazon services for managing your identity and access rights on any AWS resource. You can manage users, roles, and policies. You can find the AWS IAM Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

AWS provides IAM for managing all resource security and policies. Through AWS IAM, we can control and limit access and permission for any resource. You can create a new user and set its permission. For security reasons, you should investigate the user's need. You should set minimum permission to access AWS resources. Remove resource permissions if the user does not need them. You can see user permissions on the Permissions tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

As a best security practice, you should not use a user account to access resources directly. You can create an access key ID to access those resources. You can see an access key list in the following screenshot. In this case, you should review access keys...

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