iam-access-analyzer

Although Trusted Advisor does check to optimize security, you might need help to check the fine-grained permissions of your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM Access Analyzer can help meet your goals for least privilege access within your AWS environment.

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IAM Access Analyzer provides capabilities to set, verify, and refine permissions by analyzing external access and validating that your policies match your corporate security standards.

Benefits: IAM Access Analyzer provides benefits like refining permissions, validating IAM policies, helping you meet your least privilege goals, and automating IAM policy reviews.

Use cases: It can be used to set fine-grained permissions, verify who can access what, remediate unused access, and refine and remove broad access.