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AWS Identity and Access Management
Build practical, hands-on skill with AWS Identity and Access Management by creating, securing, troubleshooting, and designing access controls in real AWS environments. This path moves beyond basic IAM awareness and gives you the applied competence to manage identities, debug permissions, and design secure authorization patterns with confidence.
Choose this path if you want a deeply practical introduction to how IAM actually behaves in production — from your first IAM user to diagnosing real “AccessDenied” errors and applying least-privilege design.
Content in this path
Ignition
Take your first steps into practical application with Identity and access management in AWS.
Essentials
These courses cover the general concepts and applications of Identity and Access Management in daily operations.
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What You'll Learn
- 1. Create, secure, and test IAM identities using AWS-managed policies, roles, and temporary credentials — with clear, observable outcomes for each action.
- 2. Diagnose and resolve common IAM permission failures using Policy Simulator, Access Advisor, and CloudTrail to understand why AWS allowed or denied an action.
- 3. Design simple, secure authorization patterns for a single AWS account, applying least privilege, structured policy design, and industry-aligned best practices.
- You'll get the most from this path if you're comfortable moving around the AWS Console and have a general sense of how AWS services fit together — whether from the AWS Fundamentals path or your own experience. You don't need to be an IAM expert.
- All we ask is that you arrive knowing what IAM is at a high level and feeling ready to try it for real. The early courses will guide you through the hands-on basics and light troubleshooting, and the deeper “how it works” concepts will come naturally as you progress.
- Amazon Web Services
- Identity and Access Management
- Cloud Security
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