IAM Best Practices and Least Privilege — Roadmap Step & Resources
Designing permissions so nothing has more access than it actually needs
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: AWS Cloud Engineer
Before this step
Interview questions
- How would you audit an AWS account for overly permissive IAM policies?
Study resources
- IAM Security Best Practices (Article) — The official AWS documentation's own IAM security best practices guide.
- IAM Best Practices Explained (Video) — Covers designing least-privilege permissions in practice.
- Azure RBAC Best Practices (Article) — Microsoft's own official best practices for Azure role-based access control.
- Azure RBAC Explained (Video) — A practical walkthrough of designing least-privilege role assignments in Azure.
- IAM Best Practices (Article) — Google Cloud's own official IAM security best practices documentation.
- GCP IAM Explained (Video) — A practical walkthrough of designing least-privilege IAM bindings in GCP.
- AWS Skill Builder (Article) — AWS's own official, free digital training platform with hands-on labs and courses for this exact topic area.
- Microsoft Learn Training (Article) — Microsoft's own official, free training platform with hands-on modules for this exact topic area.
- Google Cloud Skills Boost (Article) — Google Cloud's own official, free training platform with hands-on labs for this exact topic area.
Part of
- AWS Identity and Access Management — section
- AWS Cloud Engineer roadmap — the full learning path