AWS Security Blog
Tag: IAM
Understanding the API Options for Securely Delegating Access to Your AWS Account
Thinking about building a secure delegation solution to grant temporary access to your AWS account? This week’s guest blogger Kai Zhao, Product Manager on our AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, will discuss some considerations when deciding on an approach: Introduction Using temporary security credentials (“sessions”) enables you to securely delegate access to your AWS environment […]
Two Big Announcements from AWS Compliance: SOC 3 Report Now Available and All SOC Reports Include New Services and New Region in Scope
AWS is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the AWS Service Organization Control (SOC) 3 report, which you can freely distribute. This report on AWS security practices enables you and your stakeholders to validate that AWS has obtained independent auditor assurance, which attests to our alignment with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants […]
Writing IAM Policies: How to Grant Access to an Amazon S3 Bucket
February 20, 2025: This post was republished to reflect the updated least privilege permissions necessary for read-write access to Amazon S3. In this post, we’ll address a common question about how to write an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to grant read-write access to an Amazon S3 bucket. Doing so helps you control who can access […]