Lab - Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Posted 6 hours 40 minutes ago by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Study Method : Online
Duration : 1 weeks
Subject : IT & Computer Science
Overview
Explore AWS IAM through a hands-on lab focused on managing users, groups, passwords, policies, and service access.
Course Description

Explore access and permissions with AWS Identity and Access Management

Explore AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) by examining users, groups, credentials, and policies, then practise managing permissions and testing how policy changes can grant or restrict access to AWS services.

Discover how IAM policies shape service access

Bring these activities together by managing users and groups and testing the permissions provided by their policies. Develop a clearer understanding of how IAM credentials, groups, and policies work together to control access across AWS services.

Please note that to access the course content for this AWS course, you will go via an LTI link(s) to the AWS platform; you can then return to the FutureLearn course in order to receive your certificate.

This course is ideal for architects, developers, and security engineers

Requirements

This course is ideal for architects, developers, and security engineers

Career Path
  • Exploring pre-created IAM Users and Groups
  • Inspecting IAM policies as applied to the pre-created groups
  • Following a real-world scenario, adding users to groups with specific capabilities enabled
  • Locating and using the IAM sign-in URL
  • Experimenting with the effects of policies on service access