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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations

In the previous chapter, we learnt and explored about how you can leverage two AWS services, namely AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail, to govern your Cloud environments. In this chapter, we will be continuing on the security journey by revisiting AWS IAM along with a few useful features as well as learning a bit about yet another service in the form of AWS Organizations!

 

Keeping this in mind, let us have a quick look at the various topics that we will be covering in this chapter:

  • What's new with AWS IAM
  • Creating policies using the IAM visual editor
  • Testing your IAM policies using the IAM Policy Simulator
  • Introducing AWS Organizations with a few essential concepts and terminologies
  • Creating your own organizations using the AWS Management Console as well as the AWS CLI