First, always use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control who can administer your EFS file systems. IAM allows you to create users and groups, assign permissions, and manage roles.

The AWS cloud's interface for creating IAM policies has always left a little bit to be desired. Although the interface works, it's a little bit messy and I have heard more than one person say that it ...

IAM is a set of processes, policies, and tools for controlling user access to critical information within an organization.

Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure have several options for IAM policies. The following are best practices to consider when using these platforms. 1) Protect the Root ...

Brien walks through the process of creating an IAM role for the AWS Fault Injection Simulator in order to find out what happens when an EC2 spot instance is interrupted.

AWS recently introduced IAM Identity Center APIs to create users and groups at scale. Administrators can use these new APIs to manage identities programmatically and gain visibility into users in ...

AWS recently added support for detecting unused access granted to IAM roles and users within their AWS IAM Access Analyzer tool. The new analyzer can identify unused roles, unused IAM user access ...