From the course: AWS Advanced Security Management: Patterns and Practices
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IAM policies - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Advanced Security Management: Patterns and Practices
IAM policies
- Setting up IAM policies appropriately is critical to implementing effective IAM security. In some organizations, there are actually teams of people to do this because as you can see from the default policies, there are over a thousand of them. And these policies contain very granular permissions. So this has not really been an individual task, it's a team task and an enterprise. Now to start, you can use the policies that Amazon has created to somewhat restrict user capabilities. And I'll give you an example of this. So if I type S3 here, you can see that I have a bunch of S3 policies and if I click the filter, you can see Customer Managed AWS Job Function or AWS Managed. So if I go to AWS Job Function, have anything set up here, AWS managed, I have a number of policies and they're, you know, very good sort of reference policies starting points. For most of the companies that I work with, their security requirements are such that they have to use all custom policies. And again, this…
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