3 years ago

Category: artificial-intelligence

By the end of this post you will be comfortable with IAM as a service, understand the basic components that make up IAM and be fully, thoroughly and completely exhausted by IAM based puns. AWS as a whole is made up of service after service after service, it is after all an all-encompassing behemoth of a cloud solution made to handle enterprise level operations.

Well this is exactly where IAM comes in, with IAM you can enable interactivity between resources, but even better than that you can enable the least amount of permissions to get the job done.

And if your name is on said list, ie you have permission then think of that as a valid Policy — are you cool enough to enter this particular party?

You don’t add an IAM to an EC2, you add an IAM Role, and in that role you have Policies that you’ve added that detail the permissions you’re giving to the Role and therefore the EC2 instance (Note, if you have a keen eye you’ve probably noticed that in this case the EC2 instance would be the Principal in the Policy), with me so far?