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IAM Role

An AWS Identity and Access Management construct that provides fine-grained access control over AWS resources. It manages secure authentication and authorization through roles, policies, and permissions, and supports cross-account access and temporary credential mechanisms.

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Oct 16

An IAM role is a core mechanism in cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, GCP) for defining identity permissions; it is a set of permission policies, usually used together with temporary security credentials, with access keys dynamically issued via STS.

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An IAM role is a core mechanism in cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, GCP) for defining identity permissions; it is a set of permission policies, usually used together with temporary security credentials, with access keys dynamically issued via STS.

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