- Users and Roles
- Security Credentials: access key, password, multi-factor authentication device
- federated users
- Managed Policy = pre-built policy by AWS or administrator
- Effect: Allow or Deny
- Action: API calls
- Resource: ARN
- Inline Policy
- a policy assigned to just 1 user or 1 group
- override standard policy
- Sample managed policy
{ "Version": "2017-08-25", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "ec2:Describe*", "Resource": "*" } ] } |