Why the IAM Roles Rule for EC2 and Beyond (vs. Root Users)?

IAM((Identity and Access Management) helps us to improve the security of the AWS(Amazon Web Services). IAM will help you to restrict the permissions of the users like which type of service they can access and what tasks they can perform instead of relying on the super-user (Root-user) for everything you can use the IAM user.

• You can grant the least privileges to the IAM using the IAM roles.
• IAM roles are used mainly to grant the minimum set of permissions required for a particular task.
• IAM roles can grant temporary and dynamic permission to the users. Which adds an extra layer to the security of AWS(Amazon Web Services).
• IAM role can be integrated with the other services that are present in the AWS(Amazon Web Services) they can be used to control the resource level permission in the Amazon Web Services.
• IAM user Provides detailed logging and monitoring capabilities where you can track every task performed by the IAM user and AWS Services.

In this article, we will cover how we can easily create an IAM role use it with an EC2 instance, and provide the required permissions with the S3 policies. These IAM Roles are the identities that we are creating in our account so that we can provide specific permissions to the users. So these Roles provide us the temporary credentials of security for our session.Consider the Scenario in which we want to grant access to our account to third parties that can perform operations such as audits of our resources or consider another scenario in which we want to access users who have identities prior outside the Aws like in our corporate Directory. So we can use the roles for access to users’ services or applications that don’t have access to AWS resources.