Section 5:Identity and Access Management

Having understood how to create your environment and securely create resources to run and connect to your applications, you now need to learn how to appropriately create and manage the users that will work in that environment. This process starts with the Identity and Access (IAM) service in AWS, which is covered in this section. This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 13, Access Management
• Chapter 14, Working with Access Policies
• Chapter 15, Federated and Mobile Access
• Chapter 16, Using Active Directory Services to Manage Access

You will often find that there are times when you need to allow external users access to certain resources in your account, either from another AWS account or users who are simply there to use your application but do not need extended access to the environment. If you have an on-premises environment, then you may already be managing users and their permissions via Active...