AWS: Users,Groups and Policies

This article is a brief description about the users,groups and policies so lets begin.

USER: Users means that if want others to get the access of the aws account you will create a users with set of permissions.

Groups: It is basically the set of users if you want give the permission assigned to users to a group you can put all the users in a group and can give all the permissions.

Policies: It has three things

{<br />
“Version”: “2012–10–17”,<br />
“Statement”: {<br />
“Effect”: “Allow”,<br />
“Action”: “s3:ListBucket”,<br />
“Resource”: “arn:aws:s3:::example_bucket”<br />
}<br />
}<br />

Action: what action it can take like it can only list the buckets

Resources: resources can be any service like s3

Effect: allow/deny

you can attach this policy to a particular user