When providing users access to the AWS account, an IAM account is created, and the required credentials are provided. Exposure of credentials, limited rotation practices, and challenges in managing complex permissions may lead to unauthorized access and compromises.
In this Cloud Lab, you will learn to provide temporary credentials to a user and restrict the actions those users are allowed to perform. You will start by creating an IAM role to provide temporary credentials to a user. You will then modify the role's permissions and use it to allow another user to perform their operations. Next, you will restrict the permissions granted to the user by using the session policies so each of these users is only allowed to perform their own operations.
After completing this Cloud Lab, you will have a comprehensive understanding to implement secure access management in AWS by utilizing IAM roles and temporary security credentials. You will be proficient in creating IAM roles, assigning fine-grained permissions, and leveraging session policies to restrict user actions.
The following is the high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure that you will create in this Cloud Lab:
