Exploring IAM Inline Policies

This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough of exploring IAM inline policies.

Hafeez Baig
22 steps
2 minutes

Amazon Web Services

Refer to the following guide to learn how to use IAM in the cloud\ <https://scribehow.com/shared/Creating_an_IAM_User_and_User_Group_in_AWS_Management_Console__hWNiiXlcRJKFqYZZEJD-cg>

Sign in to **AWS Management Console** as an **IAM User** **Pre-requisite** - Ensure you have selected the AWS region closest to your location\ For this guide, we will be using us-east-2 (Ohio) as a preferred choice

Type **IAM** in the search bar and click on **IAM** to view the EC2 Dashboard

**What is IAM in AWS?** IAM stands for Identity and Access Management. It is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. IAM enables you to control who can access your AWS resources and what actions they can perform.

On the IAM Dashboard, click on the **IAM user groups** on the left bar

**User groups** wizard will open, click on the Group name **Operations**

Refer to this guide to learn how to create an Operations User group\ <https://scribehow.com/shared/Creating_an_Operations_IAM_User__5JyMzA1rRUmvp81UmVh3gA>

**Operation** wizard open, scroll the horizontal section and click on the **Permissions** tab

On the **Permissions policies** section, on the right side click on the **Add permissions** dropdown button and select the option **Create inline policy**

**What is Inline policy?** An inline policy in AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a policy that is directly attached to a single IAM user, group, or role, as opposed to being managed separately and attached separately like managed policies. Inline policies are defined directly within the configuration of the user, group, or role they are intended to govern.

**Specify permissions** wizard will open, scroll to the **Select a service** section, then search for the ELB service in the dropdown and select the option **ELB**

Scroll to the **ELB** section, under **Manual actions** tick the checkbox **All ELB actions**

By clicking the checkbox all actions for the ELB will be allowed

On the right side select the option **Allow** under **Effect**

Scroll to the **Resources** section and select the option **All**

Scroll the page and click on **Next** button

**Review and create** wizard will open, scroll to the **Policy details** section and enter the **Policy name** as "**ELDinlinepolicy"**

Scroll to the **Permission defined in this policy** section and review the Allowed policies

On the right side click on the **Create policy** button

Policy **ELDinlinepolicy** has successfully created

Open the AWS Management Console in the Incognito tab and log in with the **in28minutes-ops-user**, type **EC2** in the search bar, and click on **EC2** to view the EC2 Dashboard

**What is EC2 in AWS?** Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to rent virtual servers, known as instances, on which they can run their own applications. EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, making it easy to scale computing resources up or down based on demand.

On the EC2 dashboard click on **Load Balancers** from the left bar to view the Load Balancers dashboard

**What is Load Balancers?** Load balancers in AWS are managed services that distribute incoming application or network traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, or IP addresses, to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of applications.

On the **Load Balancers** dashboard, you can see that the Load Balancers are allowed for the **in28minutes-ops-user** IAM user

To create an inline policy for an individual IAM user Go back to the **in28minutes-dev** IAM user and on the left bar click on the **Users**

**Users** wizard will open, click on the User name **in28minutes-ops-user**

Refer to the following guide to learn how to create an Operations IAM user\ <https://scribehow.com/shared/Creating_an_Operations_IAM_User__5JyMzA1rRUmvp81UmVh3gA>

**in28minutes-ops-user** wizard will open, scroll to the **Permissions policies** section

On the right side click on the **Add permissions** dropdown button and select the option **Create inline policy** to create an inline policy directly for the IAM User

The steps for creating an inline policy are identical whether you're creating it for a group, or an individual user. Congratulations on completing this lab! Well done!

Congratulations on completing the lab and exploring IAM inline policies! Well done!

Exploring IAM Inline Policies

This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough of exploring IAM inline policies.

Hafeez Baig
22 steps
2 minutes