Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Introduction to Three AWS Security Services on Thursday, November 10. This webinar will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Solutions Architect Pierre Liddle shows how AWS Identity and […]

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) provides an additional layer of security for sensitive API calls, such as terminating HAQM EC2 instances or deleting important objects stored in an HAQM S3 bucket. In some cases, you may want to require users to authenticate with an MFA code before performing specific API requests, and by using AWS Identity and […]

In December, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) released service last accessed data, which helps you identify overly permissive policies attached to an IAM entity (a user, group, or role). Today, we have extended service last accessed data to support the recently launched Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. With this release, you can now view the […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) supports identity federation, which enables external identities, such as users in your corporate directory, to sign in to the AWS Management Console via single sign-on (SSO). Now with a small configuration change, your AWS administrators can allow your federated users to work in the AWS Management Console for up […]

HAQM EC2 Container Service (ECS) now allows you to specify an IAM role that can be used by the containers in an ECS task, as a new AWS Compute Blog post explains. When an application makes use of the AWS SDK or CLI to make requests to the AWS API, it must sign each request with valid AWS access […]

Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Best Practices for Managing Security Operations in AWS on Friday, July 29. This webinar will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Security Solutions Architect Henrik Johansson will show you […]

The following 20 pages have been the most viewed AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation pages so far this year. I have included a brief description with each link to give you a clearer idea of what each page covers. Use this list to see what other people have been viewing and perhaps to […]

In December, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) released service last accessed data, which helps you identify overly permissive policies attached to an IAM entity (a user, group, or role). Today, we have extended service last accessed data to support two additional regions: South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul). With this release, you […]

In December, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) released service last accessed data, which shows the time when an IAM entity (a user, group, or role) last accessed an AWS service. This provided a powerful tool to help you grant least privilege permissions. Starting today, it’s easier to identify where you can reduce permissions based […]

We are happy to announce that we recently launched improved search functionality on the Users page in the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console. For starters, we have enabled you to find an IAM user by their access key ID. Simply paste an access key ID in the Filter box on the Users page. If […]