AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a service that enables users to securely control access to AWS resources by managing users, groups, roles, and permissions through JSON policy documents. It supports fine-grained permissions for actions on resources with conditions, federation for…

Key facts

First appeared: 2011
Category: technology
Problem solved: Securely controlling access to AWS services and resources without sharing root credentials, enabling fine-grained permissions, temporary credentials, and federation to prevent unauthorized access in multi-user cloud environments.[1]
Platforms: AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, AWS Management Console, AWS Cloud (all regions)

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Notable users

Airbnb
Expedia
Capital One
Netflix
Intuit