AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / Identity and Access Management

IAM Security Tools

IAM gives you two tools for auditing and tightening access control — one covers your whole account, the other zooms in on individual users.

📊 IAM Credentials Report — (Account Level Tool)

This report covers every IAM user in your account at once.

What's in it:

  • Password usage

  • Access key status

  • Recent credential activity

It's a full security snapshot of everyone in one place. We'll generate one shortly and walk through what it shows.

👤 IAM Access Advisor — (User Level Tool)

This one zooms in on a single user instead. It shows which AWS services they have permission to use, and when each was last actually accessed.

Why it matters: this is your tool for enforcing least privilege. It surfaces permissions nobody's using, so you can strip them out and keep access aligned with what people actually do — tighter security, smaller attack surface.