AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Service

An AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Service is an AWS service that is an identity and access a management service.

• AKA: AWS Single Sign-On.
• Context:
  • It can define AWS IAM Items (AWS IAM users, AWS IAM groups, AWS IAM roles, AWS IAM policies).
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• Example(s):
  • AWS IAM, 2017-03-23.
  • AWS Single Sign-On, v2016-01-01.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • UNIX Access Management System.
  • GCP Identity and Access Management.
  • Azure Active Directory[1]
• See: AWS Access Key, AWS Management Console, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS IAM Console.

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References

2017

• https://aws.amazon.com/iam/
  • QUOTE: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.

    IAM is a feature of your AWS account offered at no additional charge. You will be charged only for use of other AWS services by your users.

2014

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#Management
  • Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an implicit service, the authentication infrastructure used to authenticate access to the various services.

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