AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - 8

An IAM user is uniquely associated with only one person, however a role is intended to be assumable by anyone who needs it.

An IAM user has permanent credentials associated with it, however a role has temporary credentials associated with it.

IAM users are more cost effective than IAM roles.

A role is uniquely associated with only one person, however an IAM user is intended to be assumable by anyone who needs it.

An IAM user has temporary credentials associated with it, however a role has permanent credentials associated with it.