Keeping accounts secured - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

- [Narrator] While most of us are familiar with the concept of passwords, there are many different ways to keep accounts in an IT system secured. If we take passwords, which is a type of security credentials, IT administrators can set password policies to require accounts to follow specific guidelines when setting up a password, like a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, a number, a symbol, can't have your name in the password, et cetera, et cetera. Then we'll also likely set a password policy for how long you can keep a password before you have to change it to keep your account secured. And some go as far as to requiring your new passwords to not be the same as your previous three or five passwords. Another type of security credentials are access keys. One would utilize access keys to make programmatic calls to AWS. Programmatic access refers to the ability to interact with AWS without using the AWS Management…