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AWS IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT


USER GUIDE

 * What is IAM?
    * When do I use IAM
    * How IAM works
    * Users in AWS
    * Permissions and policies in IAM
    * What is ABAC?
    * Security features outside IAM
    * Quick links to common tasks
    * IAM console search
    * Working with AWS SDKs

 * Getting set up
    * Your AWS account ID and its alias
       * Find your AWS account ID
       * About account aliases
       * Creating, deleting, and listing an AWS account alias

 * Getting started
 * Tutorials
    * Grant access to the billing console
    * Delegate access across AWS accounts using roles
    * Create a customer managed policy
    * Use attribute-based access control (ABAC)
       * Use SAML session tags for ABAC
   
    * Permit users to manage their credentials and MFA settings

 * Identities
    * Users
       * Adding a user
       * Controlling user access to the console
       * How IAM users sign in to AWS
          * Using MFA devices with your IAM sign-in page
      
       * Managing users
       * Changing permissions for a user
       * Managing passwords
          * Changing the root user password
          * Setting a password policy
          * Managing user passwords
          * Permitting IAM users to change their own passwords
          * How an IAM user changes their own password
      
       * Access keys
       * Retrieving lost passwords or access keys
       * Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
          * Enabling MFA devices
             * Enabling a virtual MFA device (console)
             * Enabling a FIDO security key (console)
                * Supported configurations for using FIDO security keys
            
             * Enabling a hardware TOTP token (console)
             * Enabling and managing virtual MFA devices (AWS CLI or AWS API)
         
          * Checking MFA status
          * Resynchronizing virtual and hardware MFA devices
          * Deactivating MFA devices
          * What if an MFA device is lost or stops working?
          * Configuring MFA-protected API access
          * Sample code: MFA
      
       * Finding unused credentials
       * Getting credential reports
       * Using IAM with CodeCommit
       * Using IAM with Amazon Keyspaces
       * Managing server certificates
   
    * User groups
       * Creating user groups
       * Managing user groups
          * Listing IAM user groups
          * Adding and removing users in an IAM user group
          * Attaching a policy to an IAM user group
          * Renaming an IAM user group
          * Deleting a user group
   
    * Roles
       * Terms and concepts
       * Common scenarios
          * Providing access across AWS accounts
          * Providing access for non AWS workloads
          * Providing access to third-party AWS accounts
             * Using an external ID for third-party access
         
          * Providing access to AWS services
          * The confused deputy problem
          * Providing access through identity federation
      
       * Identity providers and federation
          * About web identity federation
             * Using Amazon Cognito for mobile apps
             * Using web identity federation API operations for mobile apps
             * Identifying users with web identity federation
             * Additional resources for web identity federation
         
          * About SAML 2.0 federation
          * Creating IAM identity providers
             * Creating OIDC identity providers
                * Obtaining the thumbprint for an OIDC Identity Provider
            
             * Creating IAM SAML identity providers
                * Configuring relying party trust and claims
                * Integrating third-party SAML solution providers with AWS
                * Configuring SAML assertions for the authentication response
         
          * Enable SAML 2.0 federated users to access the AWS console
          * Enabling custom identity broker access to the AWS console
      
       * Service-linked roles
       * Creating roles
          * Creating a role for an IAM user
          * Creating a role for an AWS service
          * Creating a role for identity federation
             * Creating a role for web Identity/OIDC federation
             * Creating a role for SAML 2.0 federation
         
          * Creating a role using custom trust policies
          * Examples of policies for delegating access
      
       * Using roles
          * Granting a user permissions to switch roles
          * Granting permissions to pass a role to a service
          * Switching roles (console)
          * Switching roles (AWS CLI)
          * Switching roles (Tools for Windows PowerShell)
          * Switching roles (AWS API)
          * Using roles for applications on Amazon EC2
             * Using instance profiles
         
          * Revoking role temporary credentials
      
       * Managing roles
          * Modifying a role
             * Modifying a role (console)
             * Modifying a role (AWS CLI)
             * Modifying a role (AWS API)
         
          * Deleting roles or instance profiles
   
    * Tagging IAM resources
       * Tagging IAM users
       * Tagging IAM roles
       * Tagging customer managed policies
       * Tagging IAM identity providers
          * Tagging OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers
          * Tagging IAM SAML identity providers
      
       * Tagging instance profiles
       * Tagging server certificates
       * Tagging virtual MFA devices
       * Session tags
   
    * Temporary security credentials
       * Requesting temporary security credentials
       * Using temporary credentials with AWS resources
       * Controlling permissions for temporary security credentials
          * Permissions for AssumeRole API operations
          * Monitor and control actions taken with assumed roles
          * Permissions for GetFederationToken
          * Permissions for GetSessionToken
          * Disabling permissions
          * Granting permissions to create credentials
      
       * Managing AWS STS in an AWS Region
       * Using AWS STS interface VPC endpoints
       * Using bearer tokens
       * Sample applications that use temporary credentials
       * Additional resources for temporary credentials
   
    * AWS account root user
    * Log events with CloudTrail

 * Access management
    * Policies and permissions
       * Managed policies and inline policies
          * Choosing managed or inline
          * Getting started with managed policies
          * Converting inline policy to managed
          * Deprecated AWS managed policies
      
       * Permissions boundaries
       * Identity vs resource
       * Controlling access using policies
       * Control access to IAM users and roles using tags
       * Control access to AWS resources using tags
       * Cross account resource access
       * Example policies
          * AWS: Specific access during a date range
          * AWS: Enable or disable AWS Regions
          * AWS: Self-manage credentials with MFA (My security credentials)
          * AWS: Specific access with MFA during a date range
          * AWS: Self-manage credentials no MFA (My security credentials)
          * AWS: Self-manage MFA device (My security credentials)
          * AWS: Self-manage console password (My security credentials)
          * AWS: Self-manage password, access keys, & SSH public keys (My
            security credentials)
          * AWS: Deny access based on requested Region
          * AWS: Deny access based on source IP
          * AWS: Deny access to Amazon S3 resources outside your account except
            AWS Data Exchange
          * Data Pipeline: Deny access to pipelines not created by user
          * DynamoDB: Access specific table
          * DynamoDB: Allow access to specific attributes
          * DynamoDB: Allow item access based on a Amazon Cognito ID
          * EC2: Attach or detach tagged EBS volumes
          * EC2: Launch instances in a subnet (includes console)
          * EC2: Manage security groups with the same tags (includes console)
          * EC2: Start or stop instances a user has tagged (includes console)
          * EC2: Start or stop instances based on tags
          * EC2: Start or stop for matching tags
          * EC2: Full access within a Region (includes console)
          * EC2: Start or stop an instance, modify security group (includes
            console)
          * EC2: Requires MFA (GetSessionToken) for operations
          * EC2: Limit terminating instances to IP range
          * IAM: Access the policy simulator API
          * IAM: Access the policy simulator console
          * IAM: Assume tagged roles
          * IAM: Allows and denies multiple services (includes console)
          * IAM: Add specific tag to tagged user
          * IAM: Add a specific tag
          * IAM: Create only tagged users
          * IAM: Generate credential reports
          * IAM: Manage group membership (includes console)
          * IAM: Manage a tag
          * IAM: Pass a role to a service
          * IAM: Read-only console access (no reporting)
          * IAM: Read-only console access
          * IAM: Specific users manage group (includes console)
          * IAM: Setting account password requirements (includes console)
          * IAM: Access the policy simulator API based on user path
          * IAM: Access the policy simulator console based on user path
            (includes console)
          * IAM: MFA self-management
          * IAM: Rotate credentials (includes console)
          * IAM: View Organizations service last accessed information for a
            policy
          * IAM: Apply limited managed policies
          * AWS: Deny access to resources outside your account except AWS
            managed IAM policies
          * Lambda: Service access to DynamoDB
          * RDS: Full access within a Region
          * RDS: Restore databases (includes console)
          * RDS: Full access for tag owners
          * S3: Access bucket if cognito
          * S3: Access federated user home directory (includes console)
          * S3: Full access with recent MFA
          * S3: Access IAM user home directory (includes console)
          * S3: Restrict management to a specific bucket
          * S3: Read and write objects to a specific bucket
          * S3: Read and write to a specific bucket (includes console)
   
    * Managing IAM policies
       * Creating IAM policies
          * Creating IAM policies (console)
          * Creating IAM policies (CLI)
          * Creating IAM policies (API)
      
       * Validating policies
       * Generating policies
       * Testing IAM policies
       * Add or remove identity permissions
       * Versioning IAM policies
       * Editing IAM policies
       * Deleting IAM policies
       * Refining permissions using access information
          * View IAM access information
          * View access information for Organizations
          * Example scenarios
   
    * Understanding policies
       * Policy summary (list of services)
          * Access levels in policy summaries
      
       * Service summary (list of actions)
       * Action summary (list of resources)
       * Example policy summaries
   
    * Permissions required
       * Example policies for IAM

 * Code examples
    * IAM examples
       * Actions
          * Add a user to a group
          * Attach a policy to a role
          * Attach a policy to a user
          * Attach an inline policy to a role
          * Create a SAML provider
          * Create a group
          * Create a policy
          * Create a policy version
          * Create a role
          * Create a service-linked role
          * Create a user
          * Create an access key
          * Create an alias for an account
          * Create an inline policy for a group
          * Create an inline policy for a user
          * Delete SAML provider
          * Delete a group
          * Delete a group policy
          * Delete a policy
          * Delete a role
          * Delete a role policy
          * Delete a server certificate
          * Delete a service-linked role
          * Delete a user
          * Delete an access key
          * Delete an account alias
          * Delete an inline policy from a user
          * Detach a policy from a role
          * Detach a policy from a user
          * Generate a credential report
          * Get a credential report
          * Get a detailed authorization report for your account
          * Get a policy
          * Get a policy version
          * Get a role
          * Get a server certificate
          * Get a service-linked role's deletion status
          * Get a summary of account usage
          * Get a user
          * Get data about the last use of an access key
          * Get the account password policy
          * List SAML providers
          * List a user's access keys
          * List account aliases
          * List groups
          * List inline policies for a role
          * List inline policies for a user
          * List policies
          * List policies attached to a role
          * List roles
          * List server certificates
          * List users
          * Remove a user from a group
          * Update a server certificate
          * Update a user
          * Update an access key
          * Upload a server certificate
      
       * Scenarios
          * Create a group and add a user
          * Create a user and assume a role
          * Create read-only and read-write users
          * Manage access keys
          * Manage policies
          * Manage roles
          * Manage your account
          * Roll back a policy version
   
    * AWS STS examples
       * Actions
          * Assume a role
          * Get a session token
      
       * Scenarios
          * Assume an IAM role that requires an MFA token
          * Construct a URL for federated users
          * Get a session token that requires an MFA token

 * Security
    * AWS security credentials
    * AWS security audit guidelines
    * Data protection
    * Logging and monitoring
    * Compliance validation
    * Resilience
    * Infrastructure security
    * Configuration and vulnerability analysis
    * Security best practices and use cases
       * Security best practices
       * Business use cases
   
    * AWS managed policies

 * IAM Access Analyzer
    * Findings for public and cross-account access
       * How IAM Access Analyzer findings work
       * Getting started with IAM Access Analyzer findings
       * Working with findings
       * Reviewing findings
       * Filtering findings
       * Archiving findings
       * Resolving findings
       * Supported resource types
       * Settings
       * Archive rules
       * Monitoring with EventBridge
       * Security Hub integration
       * Logging with CloudTrail
       * IAM Access Analyzer filter keys
       * Using service-linked roles
   
    * Preview access
       * Previewing access in Amazon S3 console
       * Previewing access with IAM Access Analyzer APIs
   
    * IAM Access Analyzer policy validation
       * Policy check reference
   
    * IAM Access Analyzer policy generation
       * IAM Access Analyzer policy generation and action last accessed support
   
    * IAM Access Analyzer quotas

 * Troubleshooting IAM
    * General issues
    * Access denied error messages
    * IAM policies
    * FIDO security keys
    * IAM roles
    * IAM and Amazon EC2
    * IAM and Amazon S3
    * SAML 2.0 federation
       * Viewing a SAML response in your browser

 * Reference
    * Amazon Resource Names (ARNs)
    * IAM identifiers
    * IAM and AWS STS quotas
    * Services that work with IAM
    * Signing AWS API requests
       * Signature Version 4 request elements
       * Create a signed request
       * Request signature examples
       * Troubleshoot
   
    * Policy reference
       * JSON element reference
          * Version
          * Id
          * Statement
          * Sid
          * Effect
          * Principal
          * NotPrincipal
          * Action
          * NotAction
          * Resource
          * NotResource
          * Condition
             * Condition operators
             * Conditions with multiple keys or values
             * Single-valued vs. multivalued condition keys
         
          * Variables and tags
          * Supported data types
      
       * Policy evaluation logic
          * Cross-account policy evaluation logic
      
       * Policy grammar
       * AWS managed policies for job functions
          * Creating roles and attaching policies (console)
      
       * Global condition keys
       * IAM condition keys
       * Actions, resources, and condition keys

 * Resources
 * Making HTTP query requests
 * Document history

Changing the AWS account root user password - AWS Identity and Access Management
AWSDocumentationAWS Identity and Access ManagementUser Guide


CHANGING THE AWS ACCOUNT ROOT USER PASSWORD

PDFRSS

You must be signed in as the AWS account root user and not an IAM user to change
the root user password. To learn how to reset a forgotten root user password,
see Resetting lost or forgotten passwords or access keys for AWS.

TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD FOR THE ROOT USER

 1. Use your AWS account email address and password to sign in to the AWS
    Management Console as the AWS account root user.
    
    NOTE
    
    If you see three text boxes, then you previously signed in to the console
    with IAM user credentials. Your browser might remember this preference and
    open this account-specific sign-in page every time that you try to sign in.
    You cannot use the IAM user sign-in page to sign in as the account owner. If
    you see the IAM user sign-in page, choose Sign in using root user email near
    the bottom of the page. This returns you to the main sign-in page. From
    there, you can sign in as the root user using your AWS account email address
    and password.

 2. In the upper right corner of the console, choose your account name or number
    and then choose Security credentials.

 3. Choose the Edit account name, email, and password button to change your
    password.

 4. Choose a strong password. Although you can set an account password policy
    for IAM users, that policy does not apply to your AWS account root user.
    
    AWS requires that your password meet these conditions:
    
     * have a minimum of 8 characters and a maximum of 128 characters
    
     * include a minimum of three of the following mix of character types:
       uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and ! @ # $ % ^ & * () <> [] {} | _+-=
       symbols
    
     * not be identical to your AWS account name or email address
    
    NOTE
    
    AWS is rolling out improvements to the sign-in process. One of those
    improvements is to enforce a more secure password policy for your account.
    If your account has been upgraded, you are required to meet the password
    policy above. If your account has not yet been upgraded, then AWS does not
    enforce this policy, but highly recommends that you follow its guidelines
    for a more secure password.
    
    To protect your password, it's important to follow these best practices:
    
     * Change your password periodically and keep your password private, since
       anyone who knows your password may access your account.
    
     * Use a different password on AWS than you use on other sites.
    
     * Avoid passwords that are easy to guess. These include passwords such as
       secret, password, amazon, or 123456. They also include things like a
       dictionary word, your name, email address, or other personal information
       that can easily be obtained.

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