100 policies

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External ID policy review

Granting 3rd parties access to your AWS resources via roles should always use external ID condition. If a vendor asks you to provision an IAM user with access + secret key in 2023, they're doing it wrong. External IDs

Deny all external principals assume role

This interesting policy question on re:Post about how you can prevent principals outside of an AWS organization from assuming a role in your organization. The asker originally requests an SCP to do this, but SCPs cannot apply to principals

AWS SAM policy templates

A feature I think everyone (including myself!) should use more is AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) policy templates. This approach is a great example of "syntactic sugar" that characterises the AWS SAM approach. As an example, a frequent