📢 [MAMIP] Monitor AWS Managed IAM Policies

Thanks to @0xdabbad00 for the original idea, this repo automates the retrieval of new AWS Managed IAM Policies making it easier to monitor and get alerted when changes occur.

✋ Usage

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✅ Policy Validation

I'm using AWS Access Analyzer Policy Validation. You can check findings in the findings folder.

👴 Deprecated Policies

Some AWS Managed Policies are now deprecated since they first appeared in this repository. Policy validation only takes place on actual AWS-managed policies.

🤍 How it works behind the scene

AWS Managed Policies are acquired as follows:

aws iam list-policies --scope AWS > list-policies.json
cat list-policies.json \
  | jq -cr '.Policies[] | select(.Arn | contains("iam::aws"))|.Arn +" "+ .DefaultVersionId+" "+.PolicyName' \
  | xargs -n3 sh -c 'aws iam get-policy-version --policy-arn $1 --version-id $2 > "policies/$3"' sh

This command does the following:

Gets the list of all IAM Policies in the AWS account
Finds the ones with an ARN containing iam::aws, so that only the AWS managed policies are grabbed.
Gets the ARN, current version id, and policy name (needed so we don't have a slash as the ARN does for writing a file)
Calls aws iam get-policy-version with those values, and writes the output to a file using the policy name.

⚙️ Automation Details

Infrastructure is deployed using Terraform:
- ECS + Fargate
Clone this repository
Run the magic (previously mentioned command)
If changes are detected:
- Commit changes
- Push + Create Release
- Send SQS message to qTweet

🕐 Schedule

ECS + Fargate (Spot): current setting

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