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CDK routines for easily assigning correct and minimal IAM permissions
@aws-cdk/aws-iam is an AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) library that allows you to define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources in your CDK applications. This package provides constructs for creating and managing IAM roles, users, policies, and groups, enabling you to manage permissions and access control in your AWS environment programmatically.
Create IAM Role
This code sample demonstrates how to create an IAM role that can be assumed by EC2 instances and has read-only access to Amazon S3.
const iam = require('@aws-cdk/aws-iam');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
constructor(scope, id, props) {
super(scope, id, props);
new iam.Role(this, 'MyRole', {
assumedBy: new iam.ServicePrincipal('ec2.amazonaws.com'),
managedPolicies: [
iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName('AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess')
]
});
}
}
const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');
Create IAM User
This code sample demonstrates how to create an IAM user with administrator access.
const iam = require('@aws-cdk/aws-iam');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
constructor(scope, id, props) {
super(scope, id, props);
new iam.User(this, 'MyUser', {
userName: 'my-user',
managedPolicies: [
iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName('AdministratorAccess')
]
});
}
}
const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');
Attach Inline Policy to Role
This code sample demonstrates how to create an IAM role and attach an inline policy that allows listing objects in a specific S3 bucket.
const iam = require('@aws-cdk/aws-iam');
const cdk = require('@aws-cdk/core');
class MyStack extends cdk.Stack {
constructor(scope, id, props) {
super(scope, id, props);
const role = new iam.Role(this, 'MyRole', {
assumedBy: new iam.ServicePrincipal('lambda.amazonaws.com')
});
role.addToPolicy(new iam.PolicyStatement({
actions: ['s3:ListBucket'],
resources: ['arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket']
}));
}
}
const app = new cdk.App();
new MyStack(app, 'MyStack');
The aws-sdk package is the official AWS SDK for JavaScript, which allows you to interact with AWS services, including IAM, using JavaScript. Unlike @aws-cdk/aws-iam, which is used for defining and deploying AWS infrastructure, aws-sdk is used for making API calls to AWS services.
The serverless framework is a toolkit for deploying and operating serverless architectures, including AWS Lambda functions and associated IAM roles and policies. It provides a higher-level abstraction compared to @aws-cdk/aws-iam and is focused on serverless applications.
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services, including AWS IAM. It is similar to @aws-cdk/aws-iam in that it allows you to define and manage AWS infrastructure, but it is not limited to AWS and supports multiple cloud providers.
Define a role and add permissions to it. This will automatically create and attach an IAM policy to the role:
Define a policy and attach it to groups, users and roles. Note that it is possible to attach
the policy either by calling xxx.attachInlinePolicy(policy)
or policy.attachToXxx(xxx)
.
attaching policies to user and group
Managed policies can be attached using xxx.attachManagedPolicy(arn)
:
If you need to create roles that will be assumed by 3rd parties, it is generally a good idea to require an ExternalId
to assume them. Configuring
an ExternalId
works like this:
When we say Principal, we mean an entity you grant permissions to. This
entity can be an AWS Service, a Role, or something more abstract such as "all
users in this account" or even "all users in this organization". An
Identity is an IAM representing a single IAM entity that can have
a policy attached, one of Role
, User
, or Group
.
When defining policy statements as part of an AssumeRole policy or as part of a
resource policy, statements would usually refer to a specific IAM principal
under Principal
.
IAM principals are modeled as classes that derive from the iam.PolicyPrincipal
abstract class. Principal objects include principal type (string) and value
(array of string), optional set of conditions and the action that this principal
requires when it is used in an assume role policy document.
To add a principal to a policy statement you can either use the abstract
statement.addPrincipal
, one of the concrete addXxxPrincipal
methods:
addAwsPrincipal
, addArnPrincipal
or new ArnPrincipal(arn)
for { "AWS": arn }
addAwsAccountPrincipal
or new AccountPrincipal(accountId)
for { "AWS": account-arn }
addServicePrincipal
or new ServicePrincipal(service)
for { "Service": service }
addAccountRootPrincipal
or new AccountRootPrincipal()
for { "AWS": { "Ref: "AWS::AccountId" } }
addCanonicalUserPrincipal
or new CanonicalUserPrincipal(id)
for { "CanonicalUser": id }
addFederatedPrincipal
or new FederatedPrincipal(federated, conditions, assumeAction)
for
{ "Federated": arn }
and a set of optional conditions and the assume role action to use.addAnyPrincipal
or new AnyPrincipal
for { "AWS": "*" }
If multiple principals are added to the policy statement, they will be merged together:
const statement = new PolicyStatement();
statement.addServicePrincipal('cloudwatch.amazonaws.com');
statement.addServicePrincipal('ec2.amazonaws.com');
statement.addAwsPrincipal('arn:aws:boom:boom');
Will result in:
{
"Principal": {
"Service": [ "cloudwatch.amazonaws.com", "ec2.amazonaws.com" ],
"AWS": "arn:aws:boom:boom"
}
}
The CompositePrincipal
class can also be used to define complex principals, for example:
const role = new iam.Role(this, 'MyRole', {
assumedBy: new iam.CompositePrincipal(
new iam.ServicePrincipal('ec2.amazonaws.com'),
new iam.AccountPrincipal('1818188181818187272')
)
});
0.31.0 (2019-05-06)
Foo.import
static methods are now Foo.fromFooAttributes
FooImportProps
structs are now called FooAttributes
stepfunctions.StateMachine.export
has been removed.ses.ReceiptRule.name
is now ses.ReceiptRule.receiptRuleName
ses.ReceiptRuleSet.name
is now ses.ReceiptRuleSet.receiptRuleSetName
secretsmanager.AttachedSecret
is now called secretsmanager.SecretTargetAttachment
to match service semanticsecr.Repository.export
has been removeds3.Bucket.bucketUrl
is now called s3.Bucket.bucketWebsiteUrl
lambda.Version.functionVersion
is now called lambda.Version.version
ec2.SecurityGroup.groupName
is now ec2.SecurityGroup.securityGroupName
cognito.UserPoolClient.clientId
is now cognito.UserPoolClient.userPoolClientId
apigateway.IRestApiResource
is now apigateway.IResource
apigateway.IResource.resourcePath
is now apigateway.IResource.path
apigateway.IResource.resourceApi
is now apigateway.IResource.restApi
FAQs
CDK routines for easily assigning correct and minimal IAM permissions
The npm package @aws-cdk/aws-iam receives a total of 87,115 weekly downloads. As such, @aws-cdk/aws-iam popularity was classified as popular.
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