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AWS Identity Center

AWS Identity Center - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS Identity Center

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- [Narrator] The AWS documentation gives you several best practices for securing your root account. As you learn more about AWS through this course, these recommendations and the terminology used in the AWS documentation will start to make more sense, so refer back to this page before you start using AWS for real projects. The first suggestion we're going to implement is to not use the root account for daily use of AWS. We will create a separate login for ourselves and separate logins for any other users of our AWS account so that no one is using the root account. You can create and manage additional accounts using either IAM, or Identity and Access Management, or using Identity Center, which you'll also see listed as IAM Identity Center. The original IAM used to be the only way for you to manage additional users and assign permissions. Amazon then released a service called AWS Single Sign-On, or SSO, which allowed you to use…

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