# AWS IAM

## 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.

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### Hands-On

Time to get hands-on with IAM! Let's create Users, Groups, and Roles and learn how to set up and use them.&#x20;

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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

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.&#x20;

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### 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!