Let's quickly recap all the things we covered so far in this chapter. First up, we took a look at security and clouds in general, followed by a walkthrough of the shared security model, followed by AWS. Later, we learned a bit about IAM and how you as an end user can leverage it to provide secure access to individual users. We also looked at the steps required to create users, groups, and policies using both the AWS Management Console as well as the AWS CLI. Toward the end of the chapter, we looked at a few important and newly introduced AWS administration and security services as well. Finally, we topped it all off with some essential recommendations and best practices!

The next chapter is even more amazing: we will dive into and explore the true power of AWS provided by one of its core service offerings—the Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2. So stick around, we are just getting started!