Authorization Controls in AWS

This lesson looks at some of the different methods that AWS implements to authorize access within your AWS account, whether this is a user requiring access to an AWS service, or a network packet trying to reach its destination.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how authorization is granted when working within your AWS account
• Understand how S3 handles its own authorization mechanisms
• Use network access control lists to authorize network packets to enter and leave different parts of your VPC
• Learn how AWS security groups provide security at the protocol and port access level

Intended Audience

• AWS Administrators
• Security Engineers
• Security Architects
• Anyone looking to increase their knowledge of security and how authorization is governed within AWS

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson you should have a basic understanding of AWS IAM, Amazon S3, VPCs, and EC2, but this is not essential.