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[HOL] AWS Policy Generator

[HOL] AWS Policy Generator - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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[HOL] AWS Policy Generator

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Hey guys, in this lesson, I'm going to walk you through how to use the AWS Policy Generator. I've navigated to the AWS Policy Generator console. The link is attached to the lesson, or you can just Google AWS Policy Generator, and you should end up on a page just like this. So, as it says at the top, the Policy Generator is a tool that enables you to create policies that control access to AWS products and resources. The first thing we need to do is choose which type of policy we want to create. So the default is IAM, but we've also got bucket policies for S3, SNS topic policies, VPC endpoint policies, and SQS queue policies. Now I will leave it on the default, so IAM. Then we need to add statements to our policy, and we can add those one at a time. So for example, I might choose S3, add some specific API actions, and then choose another service. Now, we could choose all services, of course, as well. But I want to be a little bit more granular and secure here. So let's first work out…

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