Glossary term
What is IAM?
In Apex Flow Academy, "IAM" means: Identity and Access Management: the AWS tool that decides who can sign in and what they are allowed to do. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include Multi-factor authentication (MFA), IAM user, Root user and IAM role.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is IAM?
Identity and Access Management: the AWS tool that decides who can sign in and what they are allowed to do.
Where is IAM taught?
IAM is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover IAM?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 3.2: Who can sign in: users, groups and roles
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 3.3: Policies: what is allowed, and what is denied
Which terms are related to IAM?
Next to IAM in the course glossaries: Multi-factor authentication (MFA), IAM user, Root user, IAM role, Elasticity, Policy, Hybrid and Least privilege.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)IAM userRoot userIAM roleElasticityPolicyHybridLeast privilege
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn IAM?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.