AWS IAM

An overview of the AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) Service

AWS Identity Access Management (IAM)

As cloud security professionals, it's imperative that we understand how identity and access is managed within AWS.

Theory

Learn the theory of the AWS IAM Service — how Users/Groups/Roles authenticate to AWS and are authorized to perform actions within the account.

Hands-On (Releases 9/3/25)

Time to get hands-on with IAM! Let's create Users, Groups, and Roles and learn how to set up and use them.

https://youtu.be/WcCtyUXXpPwyoutu.be

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AWS Identity Center

AWS Identity Center expands on the IAM service by providing the ability to centrally manage identity and access across an AWS Organization (all the accounts!).

Theory (Releases 9/10/25)

Learn the theory of AWS Identity Center — how we integrate with AWS Organizations and centrally manage all of our users and permissions across all of our AWS accounts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pegqX2pLcegwww.youtube.com

Hands-On

Coming soon!

Time to get hands-on with IAM Identity Center! We'll learn how to setup and configure AWS Identity Center in an Organization. Then we'll create and deploy identities and permissions to a member AWS account!