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[HOL] IAM Policy Simulator

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

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[HOL] IAM Policy Simulator

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In this lesson, I'm going to show you another tool for IAM, which is the IAM Policy Simulator. Now again, you'll find the link for this attached to the lesson. Otherwise, just search for IAM Policy Simulator. You should end up on a page like this one. Now, what we've got here is on the left, we have to select the context. So are we going to apply this simulation to specific users, groups, or roles? Users is the default. Here I can see my groups. I've just got one, my admin group, and then roles, a whole bunch of roles. So I'll put it back to users. I've got two user accounts. The Neil user account, that's my one with full admin permissions. And then I've got test user, which we use for the IAM policy generator lesson. So that user should only have access to a few API actions for S3. and EC2 instance API actions as well. So that would be a good user to run this simulation against because obviously it has very limited permissions in AWS. So if I choose test user, now we can see that it…

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