AWS Technical Essentials Practice

The purpose of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is to manage access and permissions for AWS services. IAM allows you to create and manage AWS users and groups, as well as define permissions to allow or deny access to AWS resources. This is critical for maintaining security and ensuring that only authorized users can perform specific actions on resources within an AWS account.

With IAM, you can assign permissions through policies that can be attached to users, groups, or roles. This fine-grained control over access helps organizations enforce security best practices by following the principle of least privilege, providing users only with the permissions necessary to perform their jobs while minimizing the risk of unauthorized access to key data and services.

While monitoring network traffic, analyzing data patterns, and hosting websites are important functions in the cloud environment, they are not the primary focus of IAM. Making sure that the right people have the right access to AWS resources is what IAM is fundamentally about.