Over time, you are likely to accumulate and use a long list of policies, especially as you dive into the realms of creating your own custom identity-based policies that enable you to be very precise and specific in your permission set for a user, group, or role. As a result, it’s important to understand some of the features available to you from within IAM to help you manage these roles.
When you access a policy within the AWS Management Console—for example, a custom policy that you have created—you will be presented with a page that looks as follows:
It will provide you with the policy ARN and the description of the policy that you added when you created the policy. Underneath this, you have the following tabs:
- Permissions
- Policy usage
- Policy versions
- Access Advisor
Each of these tabs will help you to gain a better understanding of how the policy is configured. I now want to dive into each of these tabs to help you understand what each of...