Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer helps you to set, verify, and refine your IAM policies by providing a suite of capabilities. Its features include findings for external and unused access, basic and custom policy checks for validating policies, and policy generation to generate fine-grained policies. To start using IAM Access Analyzer to identify external or unused access, you first need to create an analyzer.
External access analyzers help identify potential risks of accessing resources by enabling you to identify any resource policies that grant access to an external principal. It does this by using logic-based reasoning to analyze resource-based policies in your Amazon Web Services environment. An external principal can be another Amazon Web Services account, a root user, an IAM user or role, a federated user, an Amazon Web Services service, or an anonymous user. You can also use IAM Access Analyzer to preview public and cross-account access to your resources before deploying permissions changes.
Unused access analyzers help identify potential identity access risks by enabling you to identify unused IAM roles, unused access keys, unused console passwords, and IAM principals with unused service and action-level permissions.
Beyond findings, IAM Access Analyzer provides basic and custom policy checks to validate IAM policies before deploying permissions changes. You can use policy generation to refine permissions by attaching a policy generated using access activity logged in CloudTrail logs.
This guide describes the IAM Access Analyzer operations that you can call programmatically. For general information about IAM Access Analyzer, see Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer in the IAM User Guide.
tags: - name: Promotepermissioncreatedfrompolicy paths: /promotepermissioncreatedfrompolicy: POST: summary: Amazon Web Services Promotepermissioncreatedfrompolicy description: 'When you attach a resource-based policy to a resource, RAM automatically creates a resource share of featureSet=CREATED_FROM_POLICY with a managed permission that has the same IAM permissions as the original resource-based policy. However, this type of managed permission is visible to only the resource share owner, and the associated resource share can''t be modified by using RAM. This operation creates a separate, fully manageable customer managed permission that has the same IAM permissions as the original resource-based policy. You can associate this customer managed permission to any resource shares. Before you use PromoteResourceShareCreatedFromPolicy, you should first run this operation to ensure that you have an appropriate customer managed permission that can be associated with the promoted resource share. The original CREATED_FROM_POLICY policy isn''t deleted, and resource shares using that original policy aren''t automatically updated. You can''t modify a CREATED_FROM_POLICY resource share so you can''t associate the new customer managed permission by using ReplacePermsissionAssociations. However, if you use PromoteResourceShareCreatedFromPolicy, that operation automatically associates the fully manageable customer managed permission to the newly promoted STANDARD resource share. After you promote a resource share, if the original CREATED_FROM_POLICY managed permission has no other associations to A resource share, then RAM automatically deletes it. ' operationId: amazonWebServicesPromotePermissionCreatedFromPolicy tags: - Promotepermissioncreatedfrompolicy