by Apurv Awasthi, Sr. Technical Product Manager, AWS This session introduces the concepts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and walks through the tools and strategies you can use to control access to your AWS environment. We describe IAM users, groups, and roles and how to use them. We demonstrate how to create IAM users and roles, and grant them various types of permissions to access AWS APIs and resources. We also cover the concept of trust relationships, and how you can use them to delegate access to your AWS resources. This session covers also covers IAM best practices that can help improve your security posture. We cover how to manage IAM users and roles, and their security credentials. We also explain ways for how you can securely manage you AWS access keys. Using common use cases, we demonstrate how to choose between using IAM users or IAM roles. Finally, we explore how to set permissions to grant least privilege access control in one or more of your AWS accounts. Level 100