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Adam Book has been programming since the age of six and has been constantly tapped by founders and CEOs as one of the pillars to start their online or cloud businesses. Adam has developed applications, and websites. He's been involved in cloud computing and datacenter transformation professionally since 1996 focusing on bringing the benefits of cloud computing to his clients. He's led technology teams in transformative changes such as the shift to programming in sprints, with Agile formats. Adam is a cloud evangelist with a track record of migrating thousands of applications to the cloud and guiding businesses in understanding cloud economics to create use cases and identify operating model gaps. He has been certified on AWS since 2014.
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Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
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Configuring Cross-Account Access Using IAM Policies

Cross-account access in AWS provides a way for you to securely collaborate and share resources with other AWS accounts. By configuring cross-account access, you can grant permissions to trusted accounts, allowing them to access and manage specific resources in your account. This helps you facilitate collaboration with partners, vendors, or different teams within your organization.

With cross-account access, you establish a trust relationship between your account and the other trusted accounts. You create an IAM role in your account that defines the permissions you want to grant. Then, you specify the trusted accounts that are allowed to assume the role and then define the actions, resources, and conditions for access.

Once the role is assumed in the trusted account, the user or role in that account receives temporary security credentials with the permissions you defined. These credentials can be used to access resources, such...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633982

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Adam Book

Adam Book has been programming since the age of six and has been constantly tapped by founders and CEOs as one of the pillars to start their online or cloud businesses. Adam has developed applications, and websites. He's been involved in cloud computing and datacenter transformation professionally since 1996 focusing on bringing the benefits of cloud computing to his clients. He's led technology teams in transformative changes such as the shift to programming in sprints, with Agile formats. Adam is a cloud evangelist with a track record of migrating thousands of applications to the cloud and guiding businesses in understanding cloud economics to create use cases and identify operating model gaps. He has been certified on AWS since 2014.
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Stuart Scott

Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
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