AWS Accounts and Challenges

• To use AWS you require an AWS Account
• AWS Account Types and support plans
  • Free Tier Account Refer Here
  • Refer Here for support plans
    • Developer
    • Business
    • Enterprise Ramup
    • Enterprise
• When we create an AWS account for learning purposes, we have full access as we created the acount (root account)
• Whereas in Enterprises, An AWS account is used by multiple employees and you will be one of the user of your organizational account
  
• To give access to the employees and set restrictions on what is allowed or denied, we need to implement Authentication and Authorization.
• How organizations in non aws/cloud world store their user information (Identity Server) and how do we connect that to AWS (Federation)
• How to enforce Standards ?
• Service Accounts in AWS
• Generally organizations use multiple AWS accounts and in many cases we do the same Identity and Access Control related works so how to reuse.
• To Acheive the above, we need to deal with the following
  • IAM
  • Organizations and Control Tower
  • AD Sync or Federations
• Skills required:
  • JSON
  • CLI
  • Basic resources creation.