IAM is the name that AWS gives to user-permission controls. The management of privileges are split into three; Users Groups Roles The following infographic around IAM roles also breaks down how the user/groups permissions work on the 'User-based permissions' side of the slide. However the most important concept in relation to IAM is simply the following; Always provide as little access as possible to ensure infrastructure safety! As well as following some of the best practices outlined below;

To aid in moving more businesses into the cloud AWS have developed the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). There are also competitors’ models, but in the broadest sense they tend to follow the same principles and categories. I’ll start with showing broad categories, then the Azure model and the AWS model.  So now we've familiarised ourselves with the broad categories, we can see the two major cloud providers high-level frameworks presented; Now the 2nd infographic of the AWS CAF begins to show more detail, exposing us to the genuine complexity behind the considerations required during the CAF process. If a business is consequently adopting a cloud, well, it also makes sense to have a structure to think about how the future architecture will be designed and if it matches cloud best practice, in other words AWS's Well-Architected Framework (WAF). Thankfully like many of my posts, there are infographics that excellently and succinctly summaries these ideas for us; It is very likely th...