Access Analyzer

2024/11/14 - 1 new 10 updated api methods

Changes   Expand analyzer configuration capabilities for unused access analyzers. Unused access analyzer configurations now support the ability to exclude accounts and resource tags from analysis providing more granular control over the scope of analysis.

2024/11/13 - 5 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for policy validation and external access findings for resource control policies (RCP). IAM Access Analyzer helps you author functional and secure RCPs and awareness that a RCP may restrict external access. Updated service API, documentation, and paginators.

2024/06/11 - 3 new 1 updated api methods

Changes   IAM Access Analyzer now provides policy recommendations to help resolve unused permissions for IAM roles and users. Additionally, IAM Access Analyzer now extends its custom policy checks to detect when IAM policies grant public access or access to critical resources ahead of deployments.

2024/03/20 - 10 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for policy validation and external access findings for DynamoDB tables and streams. IAM Access Analyzer helps you author functional and secure resource-based policies and identify cross-account access. Updated service API, documentation, and paginators.

2023/11/28 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for external access findings for S3 directory buckets to help you easily identify cross-account access. Updated service API, documentation, and paginators.

2023/11/27 - 4 new 3 updated api methods

Changes   IAM Access Analyzer now continuously monitors IAM roles and users in your AWS account or organization to generate findings for unused access. Additionally, IAM Access Analyzer now provides custom policy checks to validate that IAM policies adhere to your security standards ahead of deployments.

2022/11/30 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for S3 cross account access points. IAM Access Analyzer will now produce public or cross account findings when it detects bucket delegation to external account access points.

2022/10/25 - 8 updated api methods

Changes   This release adds support for six new resource types in IAM Access Analyzer to help you easily identify public and cross-account access to your AWS resources. Updated service API, documentation, and paginators.

2022/10/03 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   AWS IAM Access Analyzer policy validation introduces new checks for role trust policies. As customers author a policy, IAM Access Analyzer policy validation evaluates the policy for any issues to make it easier for customers to author secure policies.

2021/11/30 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   AWS IAM Access Analyzer now supports policy validation for resource policies attached to S3 buckets and access points. You can run additional policy checks by specifying the S3 resource type you want to attach to your resource policy.

2021/04/07 - 4 new api methods

Changes   IAM Access Analyzer now analyzes your CloudTrail events to identify actions and services that have been used by an IAM entity (user or role) and generates an IAM policy that is based on that activity.

2021/03/16 - 1 new api methods

Changes   This release adds support for the ValidatePolicy API. IAM Access Analyzer is adding over 100 policy checks and actionable recommendations that help you validate your policies during authoring.

2021/03/10 - 4 new api methods

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2021/01/27 - 4 updated api methods

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2020/10/15 - 1 new api methods

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2020/04/27 - 2 updated api methods

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2020/03/30 - 7 updated api methods

Changes   Update accessanalyzer client to latest version

2019/12/02 - 18 new api methods

Changes   Update accessanalyzer client to latest version