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IAM user and group accounts

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IAM user and group accounts

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- [Instructor] Two of the common elements that you will create when using identity and access management is IAM users and IAM groups. Starting with IAM users, they're typically administrators of AWS resources. They're not an end user where a mobile application stores its application data at AWS, they're an administrator of the AWS cloud of particular resources in particular AWS accounts. When you create an IAM user, and you'll see this in the demo, you make the decision, does this administrator need access to the management console? Does this administrator need access to perform automated tasks? And we'll expand out what those automated tasks are in an upcoming slide. An IAM user will have a username, a password, and optionally MFA, multifactor authentication. MFA isn't enabled by default. Multi-factor authentication is added on after the IAM user account is created. IAM users can also be members of an IAM group.…

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