About the author

Hey, I'm Tamás! I co-author the advancedweb.hu blog where I've published more than 300 articles to date on various technology topics.

I'm a software developer focusing mostly on cloud computing and web technologies. I'm especially interested in how to handle edge cases to end up with dependable software.

When I started out with AWS I felt IAM was an obstacle, making everything a lot harder than necessary. Everything was hidden behind some technical jargon and it wasn't intuitive at all where to configure things. Then its JSON policy structure required a lot of searching for solutions. IAM was in my way whatever I wanted to do.

After a bit of learning, I started to see the underlying logic behind all those obscure terminology that felt so distant at first. The identities, the types and structure of the policies all fit into a bigger picture that defines the security posture of an account.

I hope that with this book you can skip most of the work I needed to grasp the different parts of IAM and can jump straight to being productive with it.