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.
