This is the start of a series about Cloud Identity Entitlement Management (CIEM). I will try to explain in depth what challenges you will face when trying to manage Identity and Access Management (IAM) in AWS. The first part is about least privilege. Least privilege plays a crucial role in today's cloud security landscape. Each cloud provider often adopts its own opinionated view on this principle
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