Chapter 6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations
In the previous chapter, we learnt and explored about how you can leverage two AWS services, namely AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail, to govern your Cloud environments. In this chapter, we will be continuing on the security journey by revisiting AWS IAM along with a few useful features as well as learning a bit about yet another service in the form of AWS Organizations!
Keeping this in mind, let us have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in this chapter:
- What's new with AWS IAM
- Creating policies using the IAM visual editor
- Testing your IAM policies using the IAM Policy Simulator
- Introducing AWS Organizations with a few essential concepts and terminologies
- Creating your own organizations using the AWS Management Console as well as the AWS CLI