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What are the key capabilities provided by AWS IAM?

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AWS Identity And Access Management (IAM) provides the following key capabilities.

1. Access control to AWS resources - IAM enables fine-grained access control to AWS resources and APIs. IAM enables access control by specific conditions like - by time of day, by originating IP address, by SSL, by MFA etc.

2. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) - IAM provides the capability for MFA, which augments the basic authentication with MFA token/device based authentication.

3. Federated access - IAM provides the capability to grant access for AWS resources to existing employees of a company, using the companies existing identity system.

4. Analytics - IAM provides reporting capabilities to analyze the access provided across AWS resources and services.

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