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Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Foundations for Secure AWS Architecture

Learn how Amazon IAM works from a system design perspective. Understand identities, policies, roles, and architectural security principles to build secure AWS environments.

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Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC)
  • Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts

Objectives

  • Understand IAM core concepts
  • Design secure access control architectures
  • Apply least privilege principles
  • Understand roles and cross-service access
  • Connect IAM concepts into a production-ready security model

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