March 5, 2026 - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS IAM Identity Center and AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) are features of your AWS account offered at no additional charge.

3 days ago - Access management for AWS services and resources. Manage fine-grained permissions and analyze access to refine permissions.

March 26, 2026 - You also can define specific conditions in which access is granted, such as granting access to identities from a specific AWS organization or access through a specific AWS service. ... With IAM roles you delegate access to users or AWS services to operate within your AWS account.

1 week ago - AWS IAM enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for users. Click here to learn more about the features of AWS IAM. Read on!

3 weeks ago - In this workshop, learn how to use IAM Access Analyzer policy validation feature, build a CI/CD pipeline using AWS services, and incorporate IAM Access Analyzer policy validation checks into your CI/CD pipeline.

2 weeks ago - For more information, see Creating and Using AWS KMS Keys to Encrypt Amazon Redshift Target Data and Creating AWS KMS Keys to Encrypt Amazon S3 Target Objects in the AWS Database Migration Service User Guide. Amazon EC2 service-linked roles can be used only for the following features: Spot Instance Requests, Spot Fleet Requests, Amazon EC2 Fleets, and Fast launching for Windows instances. Only some Amazon ECS actions support resource-level permissions. MediaPackage supports service-linked roles for publishing customer access logs to CloudWatch but not for other API actions. IAM supports only one type of resource-based policy called a role trust policy, which is attached to an IAM role.

AWS Identity and Access Management is a powerful tool for securely managing access to your AWS resources. One of the primary benefits of using IAM is the ability to grant shared access to your AWS account. Additionally, IAM allows you to assign granular permissions, enabling you to control ...

3 days ago - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles are entities you create and assign specific permissions to that allow trusted identities such as workforce identities and applications to perform actions in AWS. When your trusted identities assume IAM roles, they are granted only the permissions ...

March 5, 2026 - Learn the infrastructure that AWS Identity and Access Management uses to control authorization and access control for your AWS account.

With IAM, you can centrally manage users, security credentials such as access keys, and permissions that control which AWS resources users and applications can access.

3 days ago - This feature accelerates product onboarding and simplifies ongoing management by allowing product providers to automate deployment and configuration tasks instead of requiring you to manually configure multiple AWS services. For one-time or occasional tasks like initial setup, maintenance, or feature upgrades, product providers receive temporary credentials. For ongoing operations that require persistent access, product providers can use temporary delegation to create an IAM role with a permission boundary that defines the role's maximum permissions.

4 days ago - By combining IAM Identity Center permission sets with session tags, organizations can unlock powerful capabilities for fine-grained access control and resource optimization. You can use session tags to pass dynamic attributes from your external identity provider into AWS, enabling more context-aware permissions and better cost visibility. This integration makes it possible to use advanced AWS features such as AWS Glue usage profiles and AWS Systems Manager Session Manager run as to enforce fine-grained access control, so that administrators can dynamically map permissions and runtime configurations based on user attributes passed during federated access.

January 9, 2024 - Understanding IAM is essential for maintaining the security of your AWS environment. In this post, we’ll explore the core features of IAM, including users, groups, roles, policies, and identity federation.

3 weeks ago - You can assign user permissions based on common job functions and customize these permissions to meet your specific security requirements. IAM Identity Center also includes built-in integrations to AWS applications, such as AWS Analytics services, Amazon SageMaker Studio, AWS Systems Manager Change Manager, and many business applications, such as Salesforce, Box, and Microsoft 365.

March 3, 2025 - With features like multi-factor authentication (MFA), centralized control, and the ability to share resources, IAM is key to protecting your cloud infrastructure and keeping things running smoothly.

3 days ago - Passkeys are created with your chosen passkey provider such as iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, 1Password, or Dashlane using your fingerprint, face, or device PIN, and they are synced across your devices to sign-in with AWS. Customers can also use device-bound passkeys, also known as security keys, provided by third-party providers such as Yubico. The FIDO Alliance maintains a list of all FIDO-certified products that are compatible with FIDO specifications. FIDO security keys can support multiple root accounts and IAM users using a single security key.

August 1, 2024 - Integration with MFA: Strengthen security by requiring a second form of authentication for accessing AWS resources. Federation with external identities: Integrate external identity providers (e.g., Google, Active Directory) for centralized access management across your organization. Security at no extra cost: IAM is a free feature of AWS—meaning the only costs associated with IAM are related to the resources and services you use in AWS.

July 8, 2024 - Secure your AWS environment with this comprehensive IAM guide. Learn how to manage users, groups, roles, and policies to control access and protect resources.

That way, you grant only the permissions that the user or role needs to interact with AWS resources for your specific use case. To learn more, see IAM Access Analyzer policy generation. Use last accessed information – Another feature that can help with least privilege is last accessed information.

May 8, 2021 - AWS Organizations: For fine-grained control for multiple AWS accounts, you can use AWS Organizations to segment accounts into groups and assign permission boundaries. Identity Federation: Many times, your organization will need to federate access from other identity providers such as Okta, G Suite, or Active Directory. IAM enables you to do this with a feature called Identity Federation.