Identity & Access Management (IAM) — Roadmap Step & Resources
Roles, policies and the principle of least privilege in the cloud
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: DevOps Engineering
Before this step
Mini projects
- Write an IAM policy that grants a service read-only access to a single storage bucket
Interview questions
- Why is the principle of least privilege especially important for automated service accounts?
Study resources
- AWS IAM Documentation (Article) — AWS's official IAM documentation on roles, policies and least privilege.
- AWS IAM Explained (Video) — A practical walkthrough of writing IAM policies and applying least privilege.
Part of
- Cloud Platform Fundamentals — section
- DevOps Engineering roadmap — the full learning path