{"id":707,"date":"2015-10-16T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=707"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:16:41","slug":"identity-management-in-amazon-web-services-11-best-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/identity-management-in-amazon-web-services-11-best-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Management in Amazon Web Services: 11 Best Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(SEC302) IAM Best Practices To Live By\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/e5JF9CVwUDHdo0\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/AmazonWebServices\/sec302-iam-best-practices-to-live-by\" title=\"(SEC302) IAM Best Practices To Live By\" target=\"_blank\">(SEC302) IAM Best Practices To Live By<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/AmazonWebServices\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Web Services<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>With 30% of the global public cloud computing market share, e-Retail giant Amazon.com\u2019s cloud computing branch, Amazon Web Services, is the most dominant cloud service provider on the planet, and as such their services are likely an integral part of may of your IT toolboxes. So how can you manage identity and federate access in your AWS cloud?<\/p>\n<p>Last week we shared <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/using-amazon-web-services-identity-and-access-management-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Paulsson\u2019s tips<\/a> on using AWS\u2019s build in IAM services, and now we\u2019re back with more: 11 IAM Best Practices to Live By, brought to you by the AWS Identity and access team themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The session covers AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices that help improve your security posture. AWS IAM experts explain how to manage users and their security credentials and go over why you should delete your root access keys\u2014or at the very least, rotate them regularly. 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