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Which AWS service is the canonical identity store for managing IAM users, roles, groups, and policies — providing authentication + authorisation for AWS resources?
AAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
BAmazon EBS
CAWS Snowball
DAmazon Route 53
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
IAM is the AWS identity + access service (per SCS-C02 §4.1, §4.2). The others aren't identity stores.
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