AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Fundamentals, Architecture, and Terminology

Explore the fundamentals of AWS Identity and Access Management

Explore IAM authentication, authorisation, users, groups, roles, and policy structures, then connect these concepts to permissions and secure access across AWS services and resources. Progress from managing users and groups to examining policies, roles, trust relationships, ARNs, and resource-level permissions.

Discover how IAM policies and roles shape secure access

Bring these concepts together by comparing identity-based and resource-based policies, and consider how users, groups, roles, and permissions work together to control secure access to AWS resources.

You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.

This course is ideal for cloud professionals, security investigators, software developers, DevOps administrators, IT administrators, network administrators, AWS customers, and partners enrolled in Partner-Led Support.

This course is ideal for cloud professionals, security investigators, software developers, DevOps administrators, IT administrators, network administrators, AWS customers, and partners enrolled in Partner-Led Support.

• Define IAM users and groups
• Define IAM policy structure, evaluation, and logic
• Describe IAM roles, trust and permission policy
• Describe Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)
• Identify resource- and identity-based policies
• Identify resource-level permissions