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IAM

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

abbreviationCore term

In cloud computing & devops, IAM means: Short for identity and access management: the system that controls who or what can sign in to a cloud account and what they are allowed to do there.

In Turkish: kimlik ve erişim yönetimi, IAM

How it is used

Said letter by letter, 'I-A-M'. Its building blocks are users, groups, roles and policies. AWS and Google Cloud call their services IAM; Azure uses Microsoft Entra ID with role-based access control (RBAC).

Example sentences

  1. The deploy failed because the pipeline's IAM role can't write to the bucket.

  2. We review IAM permissions every quarter and remove anything that isn't used.

Common collocations

  • IAM role
  • IAM policy
  • IAM user
  • IAM permissions
  • least privilegeThe security principle that every user, service or program should get only the permissions it really needs for its job, and nothing more.
  • secretA sensitive value that a system needs to work, such as a password, API key, token or private key, which must be stored safely and never shown in code or logs.
  • security groupA virtual firewall in the cloud with rules that say which network traffic, by port and source, may reach or leave a server or other resource.
  • shared responsibility modelThe idea that security in the cloud is split: the provider protects the data centers, hardware and core services, and the customer protects their own data, settings and access.

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