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What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

AWS IAM provides and suit for managing users for your specific domain and organization, the best part is we can Give User based and Role based acess control to maintain security, AWS IAM makes easy to assign specific privileges to an user ,exept this AWS IAM have rich features like policy alocation and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

sometimes aws IAM lacks support because of limited resources. they should improve it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS IAM helping our organization to manage users access control and giving a customized privileges for users based on role and policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Overview

What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.


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Recent AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Reviews

Sathish J.
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Sathish J.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Access Management"
IAM makes access management very easy and enable it pod level and as well as application level. It gives better security to avoid unauthorised access.
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Vipul P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best for identity management"
We are using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to provide granular access to work with AWS services to provide just the suitable access at a...
Nuno P.
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Nuno P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Simple and fast user access configuration"
The IAM console is very intuitive and easy to use. All of the necessary tools are grouped on the screen (users, roles, and permissions). It is po...
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Sunil R.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

Monitoring is one part which is very essentials eg, VPC flow logs, s3 logs, API logs, system logs with aggregators etc . But analysing the logs as centralized hub , security hub provides the context. Along side coming to compliance , macie with its AI ML models , able to identify PII in S3. More that these, custome logs can also be formatter into ASAF using services like Lamba intervined. Which threat own threat intelligence capablitiy and custom integration to SIEM solution offers visibility across the environment. Apart from service, aws provides a lot of resources for industary standards and that keeps us upto date and skilled. Support is alwasys a second option , as I get everything from easy documented materials. Day to day getting used, gave a clear explames of scenarios where I can act upon a breach or an event with the available service. which helped me to understand the risks and what security controls are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

Image recongnikition where photocopies of Sensitive information are elsewhere, not sure where to get the docs. But with few service capablities, was able to do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

No setup required. Recommendations given by AWS are a start pioint. Building layes of security is also notified with predefined rules and standards. Provides great source of references for creating and implementing an high level industry security best practices. Also offers suggestions in each layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Garvit B.
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What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

IAM has roles, policies and users which we can manage all in one place, I can allow some resource to access read write another resource or I can allow one user access to something or not. It helps a lot with access management while using lambda functions. Not every lambda has to have access to everything. It is very frequently used to give access to lambda functions. The integration is very easy it is directly attached using the console and needs policy names on SAM templates to give access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

It is a sopisticated program, works all of the time, but writing custom policies and attaching inline policies could have been made easier with policy builders but you can do that already upto some extent. Implementation on SAM templates could have been easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The major problem IAM solves for me is access management where I give access to lambda functions, and other AWS resources access to each other, for example if I want to read something from dynamodb I would need to give my lambda access to read from dynamodb which is done using IAM, controlling users is also a part which IAM does the best, If I want to hide my billing information from some AWS user I can hide it using IAM user of that user, so it is benefitting me in a lot of ways in restricting access to providing access in the whole AWS environment, it becomes easy to control what has access to what using IAM. It is a great solution offered by AWS. I mainly use it to give my lambda functions access like of dynamodb, S3, SNS, SES and other AWS resources so my lambda function can interact with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sathish J.
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What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

IAM makes access management very easy and enable it pod level and as well as application level. It gives better security to avoid unauthorised access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

Nothing as such about IAM, very useful feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Privillege access management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

I like the feature where you can create user groups so that you create a policy once and that can be applied to multiple users at once. One user can also belong to multiple groups which again makes it easier to assign different policies for the same user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

I personally felt the billing split for the users and the services they should be more detailed. I don't if it's the UI issue or the issue with feature itseld but sometimes I can't figure how to to exactly see how much a specific user has spent on a specific service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

IAM makes creating users and assigning permissions to them much easier. For example I can assign permissions to use particular service to all the people in project at one go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

Aws identity and Access Management(IAM) is easy to use and you can manage role, policies and permission via Management console as well as CLI. We can also integration third party identity provider. It provides detailed logging of user activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

AWS identity and Access Management(IAM) does not support application and SSO feature. It is only Limited to managing access to AWS resources. Also you can only create limited number of groups and users by default. It is Complex to set up and manage for larger organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

IAM provide a way to integrate your own Identity provider as a user Instead of creating IAM users for every individual. It support varieties of Security Federation protocol such SAML and OIDC for Identity provider integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikhil D.
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Products used within AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Inspector
What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

AWS cloud security provides better security and identity management which allows user for accessing the instances very easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

need improvement in refresh rate in user interface. when we start to create AMI of instance its loading time may be reduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

its for our better security and identity access management for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akhil M.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

IAM: AWS IAM provides fine-grained control over user permissions and supports multi-factor authentication (MFA), adding an extra layer of security.

Monitoring and threat detection are one of the best. I used services like Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub in our organization quite often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

Integrating certain third-party security tools may pose challenges due to compatibility issues or the need for additional configuration.

Some users may find the AWS Cloud Security interface a bit confusing and not very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS Cloud Security provides tools that help companies ensure their digital assets are safe and meet regulatory requirements. It helps control who can access what through Identity and Access Management, keeps sensitive data safe using encryption, watches for any potential threats all the time, and gives tools to make sure everything follows the rules. This means a company can have a strong, safe, and organized cloud setup, protecting its data and operations effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

We are using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to provide granular access to work with AWS services to provide just the suitable access at all levels, it is easy to use and on console, even non-IT people are able to get it done, and a number of features are significant from user to a user group or policies for the level access that can be easily implemented and integrated with a number of services, and entry gate to AWS so it is frequently used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

AWS IAM is a must-used service but as you work on it a number of AWS services are used it becomes complex and unmanaged and access issues are persistent because sometimes even after providing with significant level of access. AWS services won't work till you provide full access to that service which can't be security best practice. Only a limited number of policies ten or so can be attached to a user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing access to who can have access to the resource and AWS IAM work perfectly for that. Definitely recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prashant G.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

AWS has good number of services which are best among all Cloud service providers for me like AWS Transist Gateway to support Hub and Spoke architecture, AWS WAF and Shield for L3,L4 & L7 attacks, AWS IAM, AWS Gurd duty, AWS Inspector etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance?

AWS Shield advance service needs an improvement to protect from every type of DDoS attacks as it was failed twice to detect DDoS attacks and failed to protect our resources and systems where inaccessible during DDoS attack simulation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Cloud Security: Security, Identity and Compliance solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS WAF has feature to use third party mannaged WAF rules, because which we can incorporate third party mannaged rules by key players in industry like F5, Imperva, Cloudflare. This reduses possibility of buying third party products and fully relly on AWS native WAFs. AWS Certificate manager helps us to create, manage & store custom SSL certificates of all our applications. AWS KMS gives liberty to save, create, import custom encryption key in symmetric or assymetric way that too in same or cross account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jyoti Prakash Y.
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What do you like best about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

IAM used to control authentication and authorization of users to use web resources.It manage permission centrally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

Users have not more troubleshooting support from AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides security and centralized control to manage resources by authorized users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.