IAM user
An IAM user is an AWS identity representing a person or application with credentials and assigned permissions within an account.
Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS
An IAM user is a long-term AWS identity representing a person or application with configurable credentials and permissions.
- How it is used
- Authenticates people or external workloads and authorizes their AWS API actions through identity policies.
- How deep it goes
- Defines credentials, groups, policies, roles, and MFA, then demonstrates console and CLI setup without detailing policy syntax.
- Examples
- Uses mycli and myuser, AWS CLI commands, Management Console login profiles, access keys, AdministratorAccess, and MFA.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure IAM users through the Management Console and AWS CLI, including credentials, group membership, policies, login profiles, and MFA.
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Build Python Web Apps with Streamlit
An IAM user is an AWS identity representing a person or application with long-term credentials and assigned permissions.
- How it is used
- Supports safer AWS account preparation for deploying Streamlit applications.
- How deep it goes
- Explains creation, policy attachment, and access-key retrieval, while noting that AWS console steps may change.
- Examples
- Uses Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, and S3 policies as the concrete permission example.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure an IAM user with deployment permissions and separately generated access keys.
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Related concepts
- IAM policyuses · An IAM policy is a declarative set of rules specifying which identities or principals may perform which actions on which resources.
- multifactor authenticationuses · Multifactor authentication is an authentication method that verifies identity using evidence from at least two distinct authentication-factor categories.
- rolealternative to · A role is a defined function, responsibility, perspective, or set of permissions associated with a participant in an organization or system.
- grouppart of · A group is a named collection of identities or resources managed together for shared permissions, access policies, or administrative properties.
- API keyuses · An API key is a credential used to identify or authorize a client accessing an application programming interface.
- authenticationused by · Authentication is the process of establishing or verifying the identity of a user, service, device, or other communicating entity.
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