Today we’ll finally clarify IAM. Specifically when to use Users vs when to use Roles. This is a confusing topic for many people but with the visuals and examples I’ll share, you’ll realize it’s surprisingly simple.

Hi, I’m Dylan, a Cloud Engineer living in Oregon. So you’re using AWS for the first time, or 50th, and you want your friend to help you write and deploy a Lambda function.

• How do you give them temporary access to your AWS resources?
• How do you make sure no one else accesses your resources and runs up a huge bill?
• Do you make them a user?
• Do they just need a role?
• Maybe both?
• What’s the difference?

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