Cloud IAM
Cloud Identity and Access Management (Cloud IAM) is a foundational cloud security concept that defines and manages user identities and their access permissions to cloud resources. It enables organizations to enforce granular controls, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized entities can…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2010
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Cloud IAM was created to solve the challenge of securely managing access to rapidly provisioned, dynamic, and distributed cloud resources at scale, an issue that traditional on-premise IAM systems were ill-equipped to handle due to their reliance on network perimeters and static resource definitions. It provides granular control over who can do what, to which resources, and under what conditions, across ephemeral cloud services.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Other public and hybrid cloud environments, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Related technologies
- Microservices Architectures
- Cloud Databases (RDS, Cosmos DB, Cloud Spanner)
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
- DevOps and CI/CD Pipelines
- Cloud Computing Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Cloud Storage (S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage)
- Serverless Computing
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
Notable users
- Any enterprise or startup utilizing public cloud services
- Amazon (AWS itself)
- Capital One
- Google (GCP itself)
- Netflix
- Microsoft (Azure itself)
- Siemens