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securing-aws-iam-permissions
This skill guides practitioners through hardening AWS Identity and Access Management configurations to enforce least privilege access across cloud accounts. It covers IAM policy scoping, permission boundaries, Access Analyzer integration, and credential rotation strategies to reduce the blast radius of compromised identities.
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# Securing AWS IAM Permissions
## When to Use
- When onboarding new AWS accounts or workloads that require scoped IAM policies
- When IAM Access Analyzer reports overly permissive policies or unused permissions
- When preparing for a compliance audit requiring least privilege evidence (SOC 2, PCI-DSS)
- When migrating from long-lived access keys to short-lived role-based credentials
- When remediating findings from AWS Security Hub related to IAM misconfigurations
**Do not use** for Azure AD or Google Cloud IAM configurations, application-level authorization logic, or federated identity provider setup (see managing-cloud-identity-with-okta).
## Common Misconfigurations & Verification
