AMI
What is AMI used for?
- Centralized control of AWS account with granular permissions - Shared Access to AWS account - Identity federation - Multi-factor authentication - Grant temporary access for users/devices and services
What is authorization?
- Determines the privileges via an access policy
What is authentication?
- When a user uses username and password - When an application uses programmatic keys
An request consists of...
- an action (Stop a virtual machine) - resources (id of EC2 instance needed to perform action)
What does AMI stand for?
Identity Access Management