This series of articles will be in short and the reading time will be less than 3-4minutes..
(Since earning should be fun! This series of articles will be mainly targeting to the audience who will not be able to spend more time leading long articles..)

What is an IAM concept in AWS?

IAM(Identity and Access Management)

This is web service which assists us to securely control and access to AWS and its resources.

Few important terms and terminologies to get started.

Although many of us might still be familiar with the terms used.

Revising few terms& terminologies and knowing them will again make you even more better.

Access management terms to be known :

1.Principal : Any application that can male an authenticated or anonymous request to perform an action on a system.

2.Authentication: Process of authenticating a principal against an identity.This could be by providing username and password or via API keys in general.

3.Identity :Objects which require authentication and are authorized to access resources.

4.Authorization: This is a process of checking allowing or denying access to resource for an identity.

We’ll be learning all the required and related terms in detail in the upcoming articles..

Want to know more in detail? Here’s an official free resource by AWS and their experts to know more about IAM in detail.