AWS Authentication Mechanisms

In this lesson, we shall be looking at how AWS provides many different means of authentication.

Learning Objectives

• The different methods of authentication that can be implemented when using AWS
• The difference between username/password and Multi-factor authentication
• How to configure MFA authentication
• The process in which programmatic authentication is managed
• How IAM roles can be used to authenticate and authorize EC2 instances to access resources
• How Key Pairs are used to authenticate you to newly created EC2 instances
• The different options available with regards to federated authentication

Intended Audience

• AWS Administrators
• Security Engineers
• Security Architects
• And anyone who is looking to increase their knowledge of security and authentication within AWS

Prerequisites

You should have a basic understanding of AWS IAM and what the service is used for. It would also be advantageous if you had some basic hands-on experience of Amazon EC2, but it is not essential.