AWS IAM Reference

A single, auto-updated reference for the entire (documented) IAM specification. The included reference.json file is autogenerated from the source of the IAM Policy Generator and updates are auto-pushed to this repo every 30 minutes. Take a look at this repo's git history for a full timeline of IAM additions.

This JSON can be used to validate the policies that you're writing and powers the Atom IAM Syntax Highlighter. You can use reference.json like:

Usage

Update The Servicemap:

go run main.go

Querying:

# Optionally Download Map Directly
curl -sO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/witoff/aws-iam-reference/master/reference.json

# Query for a key
jq '.["AWS Config"]' reference.json
# {
#   "StringPrefix": "config",
#   "Actions": [
#     "DeleteConfigRule",
#     ...
#   ]
# }

# Get a list of available keys
jq keys reference.json
# [
#   "AWS Application Discovery Service",
#   "AWS Billing",
#   "AWS Budgets",
#   .....
# ]

# Get actions for a single key
jq '.["AWS WAF"].Actions' reference.json
# [
#   "CreateByteMatchSet",
#   "CreateIPSet",
#   "CreateRule",
#   ...
# ]