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Core AWS IAM objects

Core AWS IAM objects - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Core AWS IAM objects

- [Instructor] To get us started looking at basics, we're gonna review core AWS IAM objects. These are users, groups, roles and policies. And I've set up a couple of examples in the console for us to quickly review these concepts. If you're completely new to IAM, you might want to pause this video and watch AWS Enterprise Security. So inside of the console, if I bring up IAM, you can see that we have a couple of things set up. I've set up some users, groups, customer managed policies, and roles. In addition to that, I have aliased the IAM users sign in link with the demo-for-training alias, which is an alternative and provides security in that you're no longer showing your account ID when non-route users sign in. So we're signed in as the route user. And you can tell that because this is the alias for the route user. There will be only one for the account. As the route user, I have created a number of accounts and associated them with different permissions through groups and policies.…

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