Edit IAM policies (Amazon API)
A policy is an entity that, when attached to an identity or resource, defines their permissions. You can use the Amazon API to edit customer managed policies and inline policies in IAM. Amazon managed policies cannot be edited. The number and size of IAM resources in an Amazon account are limited. For more information, see IAM and Amazon STS quotas.
For more information about policy structure and syntax, see Policies and permissions in Amazon Identity and Access Management and the IAM JSON policy element reference.
Prerequisites
Before you change the permissions for a policy, you should review its recent service-level activity. This is important because you don't want to remove access from a principal (person or application) who is using it. For more information about viewing last accessed information, see Refine permissions in Amazon using last accessed information.
Editing customer managed policies (Amazon API)
You can edit a customer managed policy using the Amazon API.
Note
A managed policy can have up to five versions. If you need to make changes to a customer managed policy beyond five versions, you must first delete one or more existing versions.
To edit a customer managed policy (Amazon API)
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(Optional) To view information about a policy, call the following operations:
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To list managed policies: ListPolicies
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To retrieve detailed information about a managed policy: GetPolicy
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(Optional) To find out about the relationships between the policies and identities, call the following operations:
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To list the identities (IAM users, IAM groups, and IAM roles) to which a managed policy is attached:
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To list the managed policies attached to an identity (a user, user group, or role):
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To edit a customer managed policy, call the following operation:
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(Optional) To validate a customer managed policy, call the following IAM Access Analyzer operation:
Setting the default version of a customer managed policy (Amazon API)
You can set a default version of a customer managed policy from the Amazon API.
To set the default version of a customer managed policy (Amazon API)
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(Optional) To list managed policies, call the following operation:
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To set the default version of a customer managed policy, call the following operation:
Deleting a version of a customer managed policy (Amazon API)
You can delete a version of a customer managed policy from the Amazon API.
To delete a version of a customer managed policy (Amazon API)
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(Optional) To list managed policies, call the following operation:
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To delete a customer managed policy, call the following operation:
Editing inline policies (Amazon API)
You can edit an inline policy from the Amazon API.
To edit an inline policy (Amazon API)
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(Optional) To view information about an inline policy, run the following operations:
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To list inline policies associated to an identity (a user, user group, or role):
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To retrieve detailed information about an inline policy:
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To edit an inline policy, run the following operations:
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(Optional) To validate an inline policy, run the following IAM Access Analyzer operation: