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Cloud IAM services

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Cloud IAM services

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I'm going to do a demonstration now of identity and access management and realize that the IAM service is pretty similar at AWS and Google Cloud. Azure is a little bit different. It is Active Directory centric. So there it's going to be Azure AD with your global groups and all of that. Now we're going to look at the IAM service here. And as you can see, I'm at the IAM dashboard. The first thing I want to tell you is this. Cloud providers today prefer that you do not use this service, OK? So for example, if I use this service, which is really kind of a role-based access control model, I'm going to go into my account, and I'm going to create groups. And you can see here I've got three groups, auditors, managers, and production, so kind of role-based, right? This group is going to get a set of permissions, and their permissions are known as policies at AWS. So these policies that we look at here are expressed in JSON format by default, OK? So JavaScript Object Notation Language. And what…

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