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Listing AWS IAM Permission Names by System

Tuesday, April 18th, 2017

A tiny shell script for listing the AWS IAM permission for a particular system, like “ec2” or “s3”.

Does not handle every possible case, as some URL paths are inconsistent. YMMV.

Example:


lap ~> iam-permissions ec2 | head -5
ec2:AcceptReservedInstancesExchangeQuote
ec2:AcceptVpcPeeringConnection
ec2:AllocateAddress
ec2:AllocateHosts
ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses

Script below…

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