Developer Resources for AWS IAM

Below is a list of announcements about IAM-related functionality published since 2010.

2016

• How to Automatically Tag Amazon EC2 Resources in Response to API Events
  
• Spring SOC Report Now Available—Amazon WorkMail Now in Scope
  
• Start Planning for AWS re:Invent 2016
• Introducing Improved User Search Functionality in the IAM Console
  
• How to Configure Your EC2 Instances to Automatically Join a Microsoft Active Directory Domain
  
• In Case You Missed These: AWS Security Blog Posts from March and April
  
• How to Control Access to Your Amazon Elasticsearch Service Domain
  
• How to Optimize and Visualize Your Security Groups

2015

• Introducing s2n, a New Open Source TLS Implementation
• Customer Update—AWS and EU Safe Harbor
• How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector
• How to Implement Federated API and CLI Access Using SAML 2.0 and AD FS
• Privacy and Data Security
• Enable a New Feature in the AWS Management Console: Cross-Account Access
• PCI Compliance in the AWS Cloud
• How to Help Prepare for DDoS Attacks by Reducing Your Attack Surface
  

2014

• A Recap of the AWS Security Blog in 2014
  
• Coming March 2015: Upgrades to IAM Policy Validation
• Introducing the IAM GetAccountAuthorizationDetails API
  
• Announcing OpenID Connect Support for Amazon Cognito
  
• At-a-glance view of last AWS sign in
• Easier role selection for SAML-based single sign-on
  
• Introducing the Redesigned IAM Console
  

2013

• Identity Federation using SAML 2.0
• Policy Simulator
• Resource-Level Permissions for EC2 and RDS Resources
• Web Identity Federation Playground
• AWS IAM now Supports Amazon, Facebook, and Google Identity Federation
• Variables in AWS Access Control Policies

2012

• Enable Single Sign On to the AWS Management Console
• Delegating API Access to AWS Services Using IAM Roles
• Identity and Access Management for the AWS Marketplace
• The AWS Report - Anders Samuelsson, AWS IAM
• New AWS Feature - MFA-Protected API Access
• IAM roles for EC2 instances – Simplified Secure Access to AWS service APIs from EC2
• AWS Storage Gateway - APIs and IAM Support

2011

• New - AWS Virtual (Software) Multi-Factor Authentication - RFC 6238 Support
• Integrated IAM Policy Generator
• Updated Mobile SDKs for AWS - Improved Credential Management
• AWS Identity and Access Management - Now With Identity Federation
• Identity and Access Management in the AWS Management Console
• IAM: AWS Identity and Access Management - Now Generally Available
• AWS Identity and Access Management Users Can Now Log in to the AWS Management Console

2010

• Route53 plus a bonus IAM tutorial