Identity & Access Management
IAM Policy Elements Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed AWS cross-account access using IAM roles. https://cloudaffaire.com/cross-account-access-using-iam-roles/ We are nearing our end in this IAM introductory series and in this blog post, we will discuss IAM policy elements. IAM Policy Elements: Version: This Version JSON policy element is used within a policy and defines the version of the policy language. The Version policy element specifies the language syntax…
Cross Account Access Using IAM Roles Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed Identity Providers and Federation in AWS. We have also created our 1st IDP (Identity provider) using SAML (Azure AD). https://cloudaffaire.com/identity-providers-and-federation/ In this blog post, we are going to discuss how to get cross account access using IAM roles. Cross Account Access Using IAM Roles: You can grant your IAM users permission…
Identity Providers and Federation Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed how to secure your root account. https://cloudaffaire.com/secure-aws-root-account/ In this blog post, we are going to discuss Identity Providers and Federation in AWS. We will also create our 1st IDP (Identity provider) using SAML (Azure AD). Identity Providers and Federation: With an identity provider (IdP), you can manage your user identities outside of AWS…
Secure AWS root account Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed multi-factor authentication. https://cloudaffaire.com/multi-factor-authentication-mfa/ In this blog post, we are going to complete our root account security. Secure AWS root account: When you first create an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, you begin with a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account. This identity is…
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed IAM Roles. https://cloudaffaire.com/iam-roles/ In this blog post, we are going to discuss Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in AWS. We will also enable MFA to our root account using Virtual MFA device (mobile app). Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a simple best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of…
IAM Roles Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed IAM Groups. https://cloudaffaire.com/iam-groups/ In this blog post, we are going to discuss IAM Roles. We will also create our 1st IAM role. IAM Roles: An IAM role is similar to an IAM user, in that it is an AWS identity with permission policies that determine what the identity can and cannot do in AWS. However,…
IAM Groups Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed IAM policy. https://cloudaffaire.com/iam-policies/ In this blog post, we are going to discuss IAM Groups. We will also create our 1st IAM group. IAM Groups: An IAM group is a collection of IAM users. Groups let you specify permissions for multiple users, which can make it easier to manage the permissions for those users. For example,…
IAM Policies Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed IAM users and also create our 1st IAM user. https://cloudaffaire.com/iam-users/ In this blog post, we are going to discuss IAM Policies. We will also create our 1st IAM Policy and attach it to the user created in the previous blog post. IAM Policies: You can manage access in AWS by creating policies and attaching them…
IAM users Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed IAM or Identity and Access Management. https://cloudaffaire.com/identity-and-access-management-iam/ In this blog post, we are going to discuss IAM users. We will also create our 1st IAM user. IAM users: An IAM user is an entity that you create in AWS. The IAM user represents the person or service who uses the IAM user to interact with…
Identity and Access Management (IAM) Hello Everyone Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet. In the last blog post, we have discussed CloudWatch Logs and also configured CloudWatch log agent in an EC2 instance to collect and display logs in CloudWatch console. And with that, we have concluded our introductory series in CloudWatch. https://cloudaffaire.com/cloudwatch-logs/ In this blog post, we are going to start with a new AWS service called Identity and Access Management or…
