AWS IAM Policy Summaries Now Help You Identify Errors and Correct Permissions in Your IAM Policies

Posted on: Sep 15, 2017

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy summaries make it easier to view and understand the permissions in your policies when using the IAM console. Today, we updated policy summaries to help you identify and correct errors in your IAM policies. When you set permissions using policies, for each action you specify, you must match that action to supported resources or conditions. Now, you will see a warning if these policy elements (actions, resources, and conditions) defined in an IAM policy do not match. With this update, policy summaries make it easy to detect if a policy includes an action that does not support the resource or condition specified.

To learn more, see AWS IAM Policy Summaries Now Help You Identify and Correct Permissions Errors in Your Policies and the IAM documentation, Understanding Policy Summaries in the AWS Management Console