An overview of IAM in AWS

If you use AWS, you should make sure you have the right account structure in place. If you just go ahead and use a root account, you might just lose your whole business.

Now that I have your attention (and that you are rightfully scared of the bad people out there) I wanted to talk about the tools that AWS offers to manage permissions for its resources, also called IAM.

IAM is extremely powerful, but the sheer amount of things that they throw at you can be scary at first. Just check how big their FAQ is. I have been using it extensively in my project to manage…