Learn Identity and Access Management

Let's learn about Amazon Identity Access Management (IAM). If you are new to learning the Amazon Web Services stack, this is an important and necessary first step:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6FW4UANGc

SCHEDULE

12:00 - 12:05 Meet and Greet / Socializing

12:05 - 12:45 Informal talk / training: Learn IAM

12:45 - 1:00 Break-out / discussion -- need help with an AWS

ONLINE

For those of us who aren't in San Francisco, here is our online presence:

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYcDLEDYk_rg5z1hYcWExmSDMqm50UZ7_3o52lMNh44tDfiYUg?hl=en&authuser=0

FOOD

Please eat in advance. There won't be any food provided.

PREREQUISITES

Although this is a fundamental skill, familiarizing yourself with a fundamental service like EC2 or S3 will be helpful. Before attending this session, you should be familiar with how to spin up your own EC2 instance. Here's a video to show how to do it for free:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmNgXQXkpWs

WILL I BE BORED?

This is a BEGINNER LEVEL introduction session. It is designed for those who have never used IAM before. If you have already set-up IAM accounts, assigned passwords, created keys, and set policies you won't get much out of the session. If there is extra time and expertise in the room, we MAY try to set-up two factor authentication with tokens. But, that is not guaranteed.

If you're more advanced, you may want to go to this MeetUp instead (they are doing deployments/DevOps):

https://www.meetup.com/AdvancedAWS/events/228901715