Effective IAM for AWS
by Effective IAM
$10
By Stephen Kuenzli
Effective IAM for Amazon Web Services is for Cloud engineers who design, develop, and review AWS IAM security policies in their daily work.
Stop struggling to deliver effective AWS security policies.
Learn how to scale IAM best practices to all developers and your organization.
Solve difficult security problems using the best parts of AWS IAM
Simplify AWS IAM into a set of secure infrastructure code building blocks to deliver changes quickly
Verify AWS IAM security policies protect resources as intended
Secure IAM continuously at any scale
Contents
Control access to any resource
Why AWS IAM is hard
Architect AWS organization for scale
Create IAM principals and provision access
Simplify AWS IAM using the best parts
Understand what your IAM Policies actually do
Secure IAM continuously
Appendices:
Least privilege S3 bucket policy
Least privilege KMS key policy
IAM roles quickstart
Reviews
Wes Novack, Technologist, Leader, Author
"In his book, Stephen does a wonderful job of explaining his recommended control loops, processes & culture to enable an organization to secure their AWS presence effectively & in a repeatable fashion."
Paul Swail, Serverless Expert & AWS Consultant at Winter Wind Software
"Do you deal with IAM regularly but still not properly understand it? If so, I highly recommend you check out Effective IAM for AWS. Since I read it, I have a much clearer mental model on how to best define principals and policies for both security and maintainability."