Interview Q&A / AWS & Cloud
AWS & Cloud interview questions
EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM and VPC basics, with when to pick which service.
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- How does cross-account access work with IAM roles and AWS STS?
The target account creates a role with a trust policy naming the other account, and permissions for what the role can do. A user or service in the other account calls STS AssumeRole and receives temporary credentials for that role.
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