Category: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and […]

Speed up AWS development with an open source tool that analyzes your code to generate valid IAM policies, providing AI coding assistants with up-to-date AWS service knowledge and reliable permission recommendations.

Next week, don’t miss AWS re:Invent, Dec. 1-5, 2025, for the latest AWS news, expert insights, and global cloud community connections! Our News Blog team is finalizing posts to introduce the most exciting launches from our service teams. If you’re joining us in person in Las Vegas, review the agenda, session catalog, and attendee guides […]

AWS introduces Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) for S3 general purpose buckets, enabling administrators to automatically manage permissions through tag-based policies that match tags between users, roles, and buckets—eliminating the need to constantly update IAM policies as organizations scale.

AWS IAM now enables outbound identity federation, allowing developers to securely authenticate AWS workloads with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens instead of storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords.

To be honest, I’m still recovering from the AWS Summit in New York, doing my best to level up on launches like Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Preview) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Vectors. There’s a lot of new stuff to learn! Meanwhile, it’s been an exciting week for AWS builders focused on reliability and observability. […]

A new capability in IAM Access Analyzer helps security teams verify which principals within their AWS organization have access to critical resources like S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, and RDS snapshots by using automated reasoning to evaluate multiple policies and provide findings through a unified dashboard.

AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest […]