AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

4.5

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Product Information on AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

AWS Identity and Access Management IAM is a software that enables administrators to control user access to resources within Amazon Web Services environments. The software provides capabilities for creating and managing AWS users and groups and defining permissions to allow or deny access to specific AWS resources. It supports policies for fine-grained authorization, multi-factor authentication, and federated access, helping organizations maintain security and compliance by ensuring that only authenticated and authorized users can perform actions on AWS services. IAM addresses the business need for secure, manageable, and scalable user access control in cloud-based infrastructures.

Overall experience with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Security Analyst
500M - 1B USD, Software
FAVORABLE

Gestión granular y accesos temporales destacan en AWS IAM, aunque es complejo

4.0
Aug 18, 2025
Utilizamos IAM Roles en conjunto con un IDP para la gestión centralizada de acciones dentro de la consola de AWS por parte de usuarios finales, con rotundo éxito en todas las funciones a excepción de limitaciones de API.
OWNER
<50M USD, Real Estate
CRITICAL

Granular Access Management and Scoped Roles Offer Flexibility

3.0
May 20, 2025
As with most AWS products, once you traverse the options maze that is their dashboard, you can dive deep into granular access management and scoped roles along with an easy to update security model as your organization grows.

About Company

Company Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+

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4.5

(235 Ratings)

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  • Security Analyst
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Gestión granular y accesos temporales destacan en AWS IAM, aunque es complejo

    4.0
    Aug 18, 2025
    Utilizamos IAM Roles en conjunto con un IDP para la gestión centralizada de acciones dentro de la consola de AWS por parte de usuarios finales, con rotundo éxito en todas las funciones a excepción de limitaciones de API.
  • Data Analyst
    <50M USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    AWS IAM Delivers Strong Security But Presents Notable Complexity And Usability Challenges

    5.0
    Sep 10, 2025
    AWS IAM is the foundation of security for any AWS workload. It's a critical, reliable, and powerful service that enables us to enforce a strong security posture. It's not the easiest to learn, but the peace of mind it provides is well worth the effort.
  • SR. SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
    <50M USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Integrated Identity Management and Automated Provisioning Enhance AWS IAM Efficiency

    5.0
    Aug 25, 2025
    AWS IAM has been a breeze since we have deployed it. We have also integrated it with another identity provider and have been syncing the directory users and groups. This makes it much easier to manage resource access by leveraging synced accounts, especially when vendor access is required. You can also create custom roles and policies as desired. All enabling and disabling is managed automatically by the sync/provisioning.
  • CLOUD ENGINEER / CLOUD SPECIALIST
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    AWS IAM : The backbone of access control

    5.0
    Sep 29, 2025
    Useful services from AWS to create end to end access key creation for user authentication The policy creation and management can be a bit tricky and you can may overprovision but if management carefully extremely useful
  • SECURITY ENGINEER
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    AWS IAM Enables Granular Access Control But Requires Deep Cloud Expertise

    5.0
    Sep 19, 2025
    As a fundamental part of AWS Security there is no option to not use it. We are happy with the overall professional services provided by AWS and IAM services is a great example of it. Thanks to this we are improving our security posture by easy implementation of Role based access control, MFA, Granular premission and fully integrate it with others AWS services.
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