Ilya Epshteyn

Ilya Epshteyn, Senior Manager of AWS Identity Solutions

Ilya Epshteyn is a Senior Manager of the AWS Identity Solutions team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has been with AWS for over 8 years, leading the Identity Solutions team for the past 2.5 years.4

The Identity Solutions team is a group of specialist solutions architects (SAs) who work internally with AWS product and engineering teams to help bring the customer experience perspective on identity topics.1 Their mission is to make it easier for customers to implement access controls that protect their data in a straightforward and consistent manner across AWS services.1

Some of Ilya's key focus areas include:

• Data perimeters - a set of preventive guardrails in your AWS environment to help ensure only trusted identities are accessing trusted resources from expected networks12
• Providing highly prescriptive guidance to customers around identity, based on hands-on experience1
• Building end-to-end solutions for identity use cases, such as the IAM Policy Validator for AWS CloudFormation1

Ilya has also contributed to the AWS Prescriptive Guidance Security Reference Architecture.36 He shares his thoughts on identity and security topics on his Twitter account @IlyaEpshteyn.5