From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep
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Providing access in AWS
From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep
Providing access in AWS
- [Instructor] We learned in the previous section that securing your IT infrastructure in the cloud is a joint venture between you, the customer, and AWS, the cloud computing platform provider. This concept is called the shared responsibility model. In this section of the course, we'll learn about another very important security concept, which is the principle of least privilege. There will be a whole video going over it, but in a very quick summary, it's the concept that you only provide the least amount of access for an entity to do their job and nothing more in order to keep your resources secured. Hence, the least privilege. AWS provides many tools and resources to help you manage access permissions to many different types of accounts. You can utilize services like Amazon Identity and Access Management, or IAM, or IAM Identity Center to provide and control access for different identities in and out of your AWS environment. While there are granular permissions you can set using AWS…
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