Managing your IAM policies
Over time, you are likely to accumulate and use a long list of policies, especially as you create your own custom identity-based policies with highly specific permission sets of a user, group, or role. Therefore, it’s important to have an understanding of some of the features available to you within the IAM service and console that help you manage the roles that you create in your AWS accounts.
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 like the following:
Figure 14.10: The Policy details screen
The page will display the policy ARN and the description of the policy that you added when you created the policy. Underneath the Policy details section, you will have the following tabs:
- Permissions
- Entities attached
- Tags
- Policy versions
- Access Advisor
Each of these tabs...
