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Create Secure IAM Roles and S3 Buckets
In this hands-on lab, you'll explore S3 bucket access control and how it interacts with IAM roles when using Amazon Transcribe. You’ll learn to implement and test bucket policies to explicitly deny or allow access, gaining practical experience in controlling data access using AWS-native tools. These skills are essential for enforcing least-privilege access, preventing unauthorized data exposure, and applying real-world cloud security best practices.
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Challenge
Design a Secure S3 Bucket Structure that Supports Media Input and Output Segregation.
- Learn how to separate folders for raw audio, transcription results, and NLP insights to help enforce clear access boundaries.
- Explore how to use bucket policies to allow only necessary access for each service, minimizing risk.
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Challenge
Write Least-Privilege IAM Policies for Amazon Comprehend.
- Explore policies that grant just enough access for Comprehend to read from and write to specific folders.
- Explore how to apply security best practices such as service-specific principals, limited actions, and scoped resources.
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Challenge
Test and Validate Access for your Security Policies.
Experiment using the IAM Policy Simulator to verify that your policies allow only the intended actions, ensuring secure access before deployment.
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