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Setting up access control in AWS

Setting up access control in AWS

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Setting up access control in AWS

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- [Malcolm] Let's see how access control works in an Amazon cloud. I'm at my S3 management console and I'll create a new S3 bucket. In the lower part of the screen, we can see the access control settings for the bucket. By default, there's no public access and we can see that access is controlled through either access control lists or access point policies. There's extensive documentation on AWS and here we see how an access control list entry is expressed in XML. This is the default ACL for an S3 bucket and it contains an owner and a grantee entry, with the owner being the first of what can be up to a hundred grants. Granting access through an access point is slightly different. Here we can see an elastic file system access point policy, which is described in JSON form. Access points are the most appropriate mechanism for allowing access at scale. Back in the console, I'll give the bucket a name. Let's check the…

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