AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Fundamentals, Architecture, and Terminology
Explore AWS IAM fundamentals, policies, roles, and permissions to understand secure access to AWS resources.
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Fundamentals, Architecture, and Terminology
Explore the fundamentals of AWS Identity and Access Management
Explore IAM authentication, authorisation, users, groups, roles, and policy structures, then connect these concepts to permissions and secure access across AWS services and resources. Progress from managing users and groups to examining policies, roles, trust relationships, ARNs, and resource-level permissions.
Discover how IAM policies and roles shape secure access
Bring these concepts together by comparing identity-based and resource-based policies, and consider how users, groups, roles, and permissions work together to control secure access to AWS resources.
You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.
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Week 1
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Fundamentals, Architecture, and Terminology
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Fundamentals, Architecture, and Terminology
In this activity, you will learn AWS IAM fundamentals, including user and group management, policy structures, roles, ARNs, and resource-level permissions to securely control access across services like S3 and EC2.
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On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Define IAM users and groups
- Define IAM policy structure, evaluation, and logic
- Describe IAM roles, trust and permission policy
- Describe Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)
- Identify resource- and identity-based policies
- Identify resource-level permissions
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for cloud professionals, security investigators, software developers, DevOps administrators, IT administrators, network administrators, AWS customers, and partners enrolled in Partner-Led Support.
Who developed the course?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS is the world’s most comprehensive cloud, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and scale more efficiently.
What's included?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:
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- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
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Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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