Recommendations for Working with IAM - Permissions Boundaries and Conditions

To celebrate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)’s 10th anniversary, I talk about two powerful ways that you can limit access to Amazon Web Services (AWS); Permissions Boundaries and Conditions.

Using permissions boundaries and conditions is an effective way to limit access. By letting you set the maximum permissions for a user or role, permissions boundaries can be used for situations like granting someone limited permissions management abilities.

Conditions enable you to specify when a policy statement is enforced, providing fine-grained access through variables such as tag value, time, and IP address. Using these IAM features will help you in your pursuit of least privilege on AWS.

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