Leveraging predefined policies

AWS has created predefined policies with sane defaults to allow most of the commonly used services. It is recommended to use them as a starting point for granting permissions to new or existing users. The advantage is that they are penetration tested and are maintained in a central place maintained by AWS, so the possibility of bit rot is eliminated.

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