AWS IAM

Manage identity and access in AWS with least-privilege policies, roles, federation, and permission boundaries.

When to Use This Skill

• Creating roles for EC2 instances, Lambda functions, or ECS tasks
• Writing custom IAM policies with least-privilege access
• Setting up OIDC federation for GitHub Actions or other CI/CD systems
• Implementing permission boundaries for delegated administration
• Auditing access with IAM Access Analyzer and credential reports
• Configuring cross-account access with assume-role patterns
• Enforcing MFA and session policies

Prerequisites