AWS IAM Principal

Definitions

Definition 1 AWS

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• Anonymous User

• Assumed-role Session

• AWS Account

• AWS Account Root User

• AWS Service

• Federated User (using web identity or SAML federation)

• IAM Users

• IAM Role

Principals have the following key characteristics:

• They may be trusted to assume IAM Roles

• They may be granted or denied access permissions via AWS Policies

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• Their unique identifier

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• is the AWS ARN

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Related Terms

• ARN

• AWS

• AWS Account

• AWS Account Root User (Dictionary Entry)

• AWS IAM

• AWS IAM Group (Dictionary Entry)

• AWS IAM Policy (Dictionary Entry)

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