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How AWS Security Incident Response Works with IAM

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How AWS Security Incident Response Works with IAM - AWS Security Incident Response User Guide

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an AWS service that helps an administrator securely control access to AWS resources. IAM administrators control who can be authenticated (signed in) and authorized (have permissions) to use AWS Security Incident Response resources. IAM is an AWS service that you can use with no additional charge.

IAM features that you can use with AWS Security Incident Response
IAM feature Service alignment
Identity-based policies Yes
Resource-based policies No
Policy actions Yes
Policy resources Yes
Policy conditions keys Yes (global)
ACLs No
ABAC (tags in policies) Yes
Temporary credentials Yes
Forward access sessions (FAS) Yes
Service roles No
Service-linked roles Yes
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