AWS Identity and Access Management
Basic Concepts and Terminologies for AWS
AWS Identity and Access Management
- Managed Policies: Policies shared among users and/or groups that are prebuilt either by AWS or an administrator within the AWS account.
- When it’s updated, the changes to this policy are immediately applied for all users and groups to which it’s attached.
- It’s like using css to define styling in HTML
- Inline Policies: Policies assigned to just one user or group that are typically used in one-off situations.
- It’s like using inline HTML styling
- Bucket: An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering.
S3 Lifecycle Policy
Glacier: It’s like back harddrive
- Glacier is used to effectively manage storage space
- Bulk of data will be moved to Glacier
- Unused data will be automatically deleted after certain period to save storage space in the cloud

3 Steps in Access Control
- Identification
- Authentication
- Knowledge based: ex. password
- Ownership based: ex. OTP, 주민등록증
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Authorization
- Redirect
- Forward
directory listing