Testing IAM policies using the IAM Policy Simulator

With your new policy created, the next steps would be to attach it to either an IAM user or group and test it out. But how do you effectively test your new policy without having to make any actual calls or requests? That's where the new IAM Policy Simulator comes into play!

The IAM Policy Simulator is used to evaluate IAM policies in order to determine the most effective set of permissions and actions that you can specify without making any actual resource calls whatsoever. The policy simulator internally leverages the same policy evaluation engine that processes real requests to AWS resources; however, it does not make any actual service request itself. Because of this nature, the policy ...

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