Question

A financial services company is reviewing its AWS environment against the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The security team wants to ensure that every user, application, and service is granted only the specific permissions required to perform its tasks, and nothing more. Which design principle of the Security pillar directly supports this goal?

Accepted Answer

Implement a strong identity foundation using the principle of least privilege

Answer

Automatically recover from failure by monitoring key performance indicators

Answer

Adopt a consumption model to pay only for the compute you use

Answer

Use managed services to reduce the operational burden of running infrastructure