Cost & Usage Governance with IAM

Implementing Cost Governance Using AWS IAM

IAM Governance Illustration

ℹ️ Information: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides powerful capabilities for implementing fine-grained access controls that support both security and cost governance objectives across your AWS environment.

Congratulations on completing the previous labs! You’ve experienced how AWS’s elasticity enables rapid deployment of EC2 instances with environments like XAMPP and LAMP to support your applications. However, with this flexibility comes the responsibility of proper governance.

🔒 Security Note: Implementing least-privilege permissions through IAM policies not only enhances your security posture but also serves as a critical component of your cost optimization strategy by preventing unauthorized resource provisioning.

💡 Pro Tip: Well-designed IAM policies help you avoid both over-provisioning (wasting resources and money) and under-provisioning (limiting application performance) by ensuring teams can access exactly the resources they need—nothing more, nothing less.

Lab Modules

  1. Restricting Service Usage by AWS Region
  2. Limiting EC2 Usage by Instance Family
  3. Controlling EC2 Deployment by Instance Type
  4. Managing EBS Volume Storage Types
  5. Restricting Resource Deletion by Enterprise IP Address
  6. Implementing Time-Based Resource Deletion Controls