IAM roles

IAM roles are the most secure way to assign access permission to the entity you trust. It generates a short-term token to provide authentication. There are many roles already predefined in AWS IAM, and it also enables us to create custom roles.

 

In the following screenshot, we can see that there are already a few service-specific roles defined: 

Now, let's see the Database Migration Service (DMS) migration roles, which are custom roles that I have created for the DMS. Here, you can see that there are seven policies associated with this role, and required for the DMS:

Now, let's see the policies associated with this role, which ...

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