Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide

You're reading from   AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide Your one-stop solution to passing the AWS developer's certification

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125629
Length 600 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Tools
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Bhavin Parmar Bhavin Parmar
Author Profile Icon Bhavin Parmar
Bhavin Parmar
Vipul Tankariya Vipul Tankariya
Author Profile Icon Vipul Tankariya
Vipul Tankariya
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS 3. Identity and Access Management 4. Virtual Private Clouds 5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud 6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing 7. Monitoring with CloudWatch 8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront 9. Other AWS Storage Options 10. AWS Relational Database Services 11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service 12. Amazon Simple Queue Service 13. Simple Notification Service 14. Simple Workflow Service 15. AWS CloudFormation 16. Elastic Beanstalk 17. Overview of AWS Lambda 18. Mock Tests

Elements of IAM

It is essential to understand a few basic IAM terminologies, to effectively manage real-life organizational users and their permissions to access AWS resources as per their roles and responsibilities. The following list briefly describes these terminologies and subsequently goes into the details of each of the elements of IAM:

  • User: A user is a person or an application that requires access to various AWS resources to perform designated tasks. A user can access AWS resources with either a username and password or with an access key and secret key.
  • Access key: An access key is a 20-character alphanumeric key that acts as a user ID.
  • Secret key: A secret key is a 40-character alphanumeric key that acts as a password or secret key. The access key and secret key are used together for initiating API, SDK, and CLI authentication.
  • Password policy: Password policy specifies...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image