# RBAC and ABAC with AWS IAM

DevFeed: [RBAC and ABAC with AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/rbac-and-abac-with-aws-iam-29794.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/rbac-and-abac-with-aws-iam/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Shuo Yang)

Published: 2021-07-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-identity-and-access-management-iam.md>), [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>), [IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/iam.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [aws-iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-iam.md>), [iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC) in AWS IAM. It describes how roles and groups can define privileges and how ABAC uses user, resource, and environment attributes to provide more fine-grained access control.

## Source excerpt

When talking about application authorizations, we often encounter two concepts RBAC (role-based access control) and ABAC (attribute-based access control).