Follow these IAM best practices to help secure your AWS resources using IAM. You can specify who can access which AWS services and resources, and under which conditions.
This guide introduces you to IAM by explaining IAM features that help you apply fine-grained permissions in AWS. The guide shows you how to grant access by defining and applying IAM policies to roles and resources. Additionally, this guide explains how IAM works and how you can use IAM to control access for your users and workloads.
IAM Access Analyzer user guide
This guide provides conceptual overviews on how to use IAM Access Anaylzer to identify resources shared with an external entity, validate IAM policies, and generate IAM policies based on access activity.
This guide provides conceptual overviews of IAM Roles Anywhere and explains how to use it to obtain temporary security credentials in IAM for workloads such as servers, containers, and applications that run outside of AWS.
This AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) documentation describes the API operations for you to programmatically assume roles in AWS. The documentation also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web service protocols.
Sample code and libraries: IAM-related sample code
Developer tools: Command line and GUI-based tools for use with IAM APIs
IAM discussion forum: Discussion forum for IAM-related topics