AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about AWS Cloud Security is its granular control and deep integration across AWS services, especially through tools like IAM (Identity and Access Management), AWS Organizations, and AWS Config. These allow precise permission management, automated compliance checks, and centralized governance. Services like AWS GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail make threat detection, auditing, and incident response highly efficient. The scalability and flexibility to tailor security policies to any size or type of workload is also a major advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about AWS Cloud Security is that the learning curve can be steep, especially for newcomers or small teams without dedicated cloud security expertise. The wide range of services and complex configuration options can be overwhelming, and misconfigurations can lead to security gaps if not carefully managed. Additionally, while documentation is extensive, it can sometimes be too dense or fragmented, making it difficult to quickly find practical, real-world implementation guidance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

permissions across all AWS services—without sacrificing security or scalability. It serves as the core of AWS security, and its flexibility makes it an essential tool for managing infrastructure access in any size of organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No, because this is actually very good for security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease to use, manage and understand.

IAM policy generator makes things super easy for granting granular level of access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't seen any dislike yet but I have IAM service getting evolved over year with new features for reporting and simplied UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monitoring is one part which is very essentials eg, VPC flow logs, s3 logs, API logs, system logs with aggregators etc . But analysing the logs as centralized hub , security hub provides the context. Along side coming to compliance , macie with its AI ML models , able to identify PII in S3. More that these, custome logs can also be formatter into ASAF using services like Lamba intervined. Which threat own threat intelligence capablitiy and custom integration to SIEM solution offers visibility across the environment. Apart from service, aws provides a lot of resources for industary standards and that keeps us upto date and skilled. Support is alwasys a second option , as I get everything from easy documented materials. Day to day getting used, gave a clear explames of scenarios where I can act upon a breach or an event with the available service. which helped me to understand the risks and what security controls are needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Image recongnikition where photocopies of Sensitive information are elsewhere, not sure where to get the docs. But with few service capablities, was able to do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IAM has roles, policies and users which we can manage all in one place, I can allow some resource to access read write another resource or I can allow one user access to something or not. It helps a lot with access management while using lambda functions. Not every lambda has to have access to everything. It is very frequently used to give access to lambda functions. The integration is very easy it is directly attached using the console and needs policy names on SAM templates to give access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a sopisticated program, works all of the time, but writing custom policies and attaching inline policies could have been made easier with policy builders but you can do that already upto some extent. Implementation on SAM templates could have been easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IAM makes access management very easy and enable it pod level and as well as application level. It gives better security to avoid unauthorised access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such about IAM, very useful feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the feature where you can create user groups so that you create a policy once and that can be applied to multiple users at once. One user can also belong to multiple groups which again makes it easier to assign different policies for the same user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I personally felt the billing split for the users and the services they should be more detailed. I don't if it's the UI issue or the issue with feature itseld but sometimes I can't figure how to to exactly see how much a specific user has spent on a specific service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aws identity and Access Management(IAM) is easy to use and you can manage role, policies and permission via Management console as well as CLI. We can also integration third party identity provider. It provides detailed logging of user activity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS identity and Access Management(IAM) does not support application and SSO feature. It is only Limited to managing access to AWS resources. Also you can only create limited number of groups and users by default. It is Complex to set up and manage for larger organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS IAM provides and suit for managing users for your specific domain and organization, the best part is we can Give User based and Role based acess control to maintain security, AWS IAM makes easy to assign specific privileges to an user ,exept this AWS IAM have rich features like policy alocation and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes aws IAM lacks support because of limited resources. they should improve it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AWS cloud security provides better security and identity management which allows user for accessing the instances very easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

need improvement in refresh rate in user interface. when we start to create AMI of instance its loading time may be reduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.