Managing access control in a dynamic application environment with varying user roles and document ownership presents challenges in maintaining security and scalability. Traditional static authorization methods are cumbersome to update and prone to error, hindering efficient management of permissions. Amazon Verified Permissions offers a solution by providing a flexible policy management system that allows control over access rights based on real-time attributes and user groups, ensuring secure authorization across different application scenarios.
In this Cloud Lab, you’ll learn about Amazon Verified Permissions, and use it to secure your application. You’ll start by learning about Cedar policies, a fundamental component of Verified Permissions. After that, you’ll use AWS Management Console to create a Verified Permissions policy store and then a Cedar policy within that store. You’ll also learn how you can test the Cedar policies using the AWS Management Console. You’ll then explore an application with built-in authorization. You’ll also make some changes in the authorization model of that application to get an overview of its demerits. After that, you’ll replace that authorization model with Verified Permissions and experience how simple and easy managing that model is as compared to the other one.
After completing this Cloud Lab, you’ll be adept at leveraging Amazon Verified Permissions to secure applications. You’ll be able to create Cedar policies for precise access control and replace complex authorization models with Verified Permissions for simplified and effective permission management.
