¿Qué es un director en AWS IAM?

What is a principal in AWS IAM?

Principal. A principal is a person or application that can make a request for an action or operation on an AWS resource. The principal is authenticated as the AWS account root user or an IAM entity to make requests to AWS.

Avi Vantage can be deployed for Amazon Web Services (AWS) with multiple AWS accounts utilizing the IAM AssumeRole functionality. IAM roles provide access across AWS accounts to the AWS resources/API from the respective accounts, instead of sharing user Access Key ID and Secret Access Key from different accounts.

After you create the role and grant it permissions to perform AWS tasks or access AWS resources, any users in the 123456789012 account can assume the role.

100 buckets
By default, you can create up to 100 buckets in each of your AWS accounts. If you need additional buckets, you can increase your account bucket limit to a maximum of 1,000 buckets by submitting a service limit increase.

: to begin (a role, duty, etc.) as a job or responsibility. : to take or begin to have (power, control, etc.)

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/ .

1. In the navigation pane of the IAM console, choose Roles, and then choose Create role.
2. For Select type of trusted entity, choose AWS service.
3. Choose the service that you want to allow to assume this role.

1. In the IAM console, choose your user name on the navigation bar in the upper right.
2. Choose Switch Role.
3. On the Switch Role page, type the account ID number or the account alias and the name of the role that was provided by your administrator.
4. (Optional) Choose a Display name.
5. Choose Switch Role.

An IAM user is an entity that you create in AWS. The IAM user represents the person or service who uses the IAM user to interact with AWS.

Hi Sonal, IAM roles define the set of permissions for making AWS service request whereas IAM policies define the permissions that you will require. Its hard to get confused with these two. answered Apr 9, 2019 by Abhi

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A service role is a role that an AWS service assumes to perform actions in your account on your behalf. When you set up most AWS services, you must define a role for the service to assume.

The is the name of the role you need to be in the destination account. You or your AWS admin should have already set it up with the required permissions. The mfa_serial line is the value for the MFA device you have configured. It can be found in your user page in the AWS console.