Tag: IAM

The goal of the AWS Security blog is to provide you with guidance, best practices, and technical walkthroughs covering new service launches or topics such as how to help increase the security of your AWS account or better achieve your compliance goals. As we welcome 2015, we want to make sure that you did not […]

Several weeks ago, we released documentation for the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy grammar and published a back-to-school policy grammar blog post to let you know of common errors in policies. To help you ensure that your policies match your intentions, we are taking policy validation a step further. Starting March 2015, any new or updated policy must […]

Do you analyze, audit, or monitor your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) settings? If so, you will be happy to hear we’ve simplified the way you can retrieve a snapshot of your IAM settings. Today we’re making it easier for you to build tools to analyze, monitor, and audit your IAM entities (i.e., users, […]

Have you ever had to create access policies for users, groups, roles, or resources and wished you could learn more about the policy language? If so, you’ve come to the right place. In this blog, I’ll describe the attributes and structure of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy language. I’ll also include examples that […]

January 11, 2023: This blog post has been updated to reflect the correct OAuth 2.0 endpoint for the Identity Provider (IdP) used and to use an updated version of the AWS SDK for JavaScript. This post has also been refreshed with updated steps to configure an Amazon Cognito Identity Pool and creating a Connected App […]

Have you ever needed to quickly look up the last time one of your users signed in to your AWS account? Or have you been following security best practices and want verify that no one in your organization has been signing in using the AWS root account? If you use AWS CloudTrail, the information is […]

At the end of 2013, we introduced single sign-on to the AWS Management Console using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. This enables you to use your organization’s existing identity system to sign in to the console without having to provide AWS credentials. Today we’re happy to announce that, in response to your feedback, […]

With the steady cadence of updates and enhancements for AWS services, it can sometimes be easy to miss announcements about features that relate to security. Here are some recent security-related updates in AWS services that we’re excited about and that you might not have heard about. AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and finds […]

Yesterday, Amazon CloudSearch released a new version that is fully integrated with AWS Identity and Access management (IAM) and enables you to control access to a domain’s document and search services. Jon Handler, an AWS Solution Architect who specializes in search, describes the new features. In March, we released a new Amazon CloudSearch API that […]

We are excited to announce the redesigned IAM console, now with a streamlined look and feel that makes it even easier to manage your IAM settings. We’ve made it more convenient to manage large resource lists (for example, hundreds of users, groups, or roles), eliminated tab switching, and optimized the console to offer a better […]