Summary

AWS IAM is a feature of your AWS account offered at no additional charge. You will be charged only for the use of other AWS products by your IAM users. AWS Identity Access and Management gives you an ability to provide shared access to your AWS account. You can also use IAM to define granular level permissions to tighten the access to practice the Principle of Least Privilege. The IAM-specific PowerShell cmdlets allow you to perform all the IAM-related tasks that you can perform using the console. The command-line tools such as PowerShell are useful if you want to build scripts that perform AWS tasks and automation. Using a command-line tool can be faster and more convenient than using the AWS console. We have seen some of the cmdlets that you can make use of on a regular basis to perform your day-to-day functions, but by no means is this information sufficient to make you an expert in IAM. This chapter specifically helps you to understand how PowerShell can help you automate as...