Lecture # 33 : Root User Privilages
cloud PATH-AWS

15 minutes


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Actions that can only be peformed by Root user:
- Change Account Name:
    - Account Name
    - Email Address
    - Root User Password
    - Root User Access Keys
- Close your AWS Account
- Change/Cancel AWS Support Plan
- Register as a seller in Reserved instance Marketplace
- View certain Tax invoices
- Configure AWS S3 bucket to enable MFA
- Edit/Delete S3 Bucket policy that include invalid VPC ID or VPC Endpoint ID.
- SignUp for GovCloud.
IAM Access analyzer

This tool is used to find out which Resources are shared externally like: S3 buckets, KMS keys, SQS keys, IAM Roles, Lambda Functions, Secret Manager’s secrets.