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Tag: IAM policies
Add Tags to Manage Your AWS IAM Users and Roles
We made it easier for you to manage your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources by enabling you to add tags to your IAM users and roles (also known as IAM principals). Tags enable you to add customizable key-value pairs to resources, and many AWS services support tagging of AWS resources. Now, you can […]
Delegate permission management to developers by using IAM permissions boundaries
Today, AWS released a new IAM feature that makes it easier for you to delegate permissions management to trusted employees. As your organization grows, you might want to allow trusted employees to configure and manage IAM permissions to help your organization scale permission management and move workloads to AWS faster. For example, you might want […]
An easier way to control access to AWS resources by using the AWS organization of IAM principals
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to control access to your AWS resources by using the AWS organization of IAM principals (users and roles). For some services, you grant permissions using resource-based policies to specify the accounts and principals that can access the resource and what actions they can […]
Easier way to control access to AWS regions using IAM policies
Update on February 20, 2019: We updated the policy example to remove the “iam:AttachRolePolicy” permission. We also added a reference to the permissions boundaries security blog post to show how to grant developers the permissions to create roles they can pass to AWS services. We made it easier for you to comply with regulatory standards […]
The Top 20 Most Viewed AWS IAM Documentation Pages in 2017
The following 20 pages were the most viewed AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation pages in 2017. I have included a brief description with each link to explain what each page covers. Use this list to see what other AWS customers have been viewing and perhaps to pique your own interest in a topic you’ve […]
AWS IAM Policy Summaries Now Help You Identify Errors and Correct Permissions in Your IAM Policies
In March, we made it easier to view and understand the permissions in your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies by using IAM policy summaries. Today, we updated policy summaries to help you identify and correct errors in your IAM policies. When you set permissions using IAM policies, for each action you specify, you […]
New Features for IAM Policy Summaries – An Easier Way to Detect Potential Typos in Your IAM Policies
Last month, we introduced policy summaries to make it easier for you to understand the permissions in your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. On Thursday, May 25, I announced three new features that have been added to policy summaries and reviewed resource summaries. Yesterday, I reviewed the benefits of being able to view services […]
New Features for IAM Policy Summaries – Services and Actions Not Granted by a Policy
Last month, we introduced policy summaries to make it easier for you to understand the permissions in your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. On Thursday, May 25, I announced three new features that have been added to policy summaries and reviewed one of those features: resource summaries. Tomorrow, I will discuss how policy […]
New Features for IAM Policy Summaries – Resource Summaries
In March, we introduced policy summaries, which make it easier for you to understand the permissions in your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. Today, we added three new features to policy summaries to improve the experience of understanding and troubleshooting your policies. First, we added resource summaries for you to see the resources […]
Move Over JSON – Policy Summaries Make Understanding IAM Policies Easier
Today, we added policy summaries to the IAM console, making it easier for you to understand the permissions in your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. Instead of reading JSON policy documents, you can scan a table that summarizes services, actions, resources, and conditions for each policy. You can find this summary on the […]