IAM Authentication
IAM authentication in AWS includes the following identities:
- Users
- Groups
- Roles
- Temporary security credentials
- Account root user
Identities are used to provide authentication for people, applications, resources, services, and processes in your AWS account. Identities represent the user that interacts with the AWS resources based on authentication and authorization to perform various actions and tasks. We will look at each one of the identities in detail.
IAM user
You create an IAM user in AWS as an entity to allow people to sign into the AWS Management Console or to make requests to AWS services from your programs using CLI or API. An IAM user can be a person, an application, or an AWS service that interacts with other AWS services in one way or another. When you create a user in IAM, you provide it with a name and a password that is required to sign into the AWS Management Console. Additionally, you can also provision up to two access keys for an IAM user consisting of the access...
