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Gabriel Ramirez
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Gabriel Ramirez

Gabriel Ramirez is a passionate technologist with a broad experience in the Software Industry, he currently works as an Authorized Trainer for Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. He is holder of 9/9 AWS Certifications and does community work by organizing the AWS User Groups in Mexico.
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Stuart Scott
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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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Identity and Access Management

IAM is probably the most common security service of IAM, so many service integrate with IAM and the features that it provides, and so it makes perfect sense to ensure you are aware of some of the best practices from an access control perspective.

Avoid sharing identities

You should not share an IAM user identity among a shared group of users. This makes it very difficult from a security risk perspective, especially when an incident occurs as a result of an action that was carried out by that identity. It's easy to track what actions a user has carried out by analyzing the logs from CloudTrail. However, if this user is shared by multiple parties, it's not so easy to identify the individual...

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Gabriel Ramirez

Gabriel Ramirez is a passionate technologist with a broad experience in the Software Industry, he currently works as an Authorized Trainer for Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. He is holder of 9/9 AWS Certifications and does community work by organizing the AWS User Groups in Mexico.
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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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