Securing AWS IAM Policies using Conditional Logic

Leveraging AWS Request Context for Authorization

Alex Rodriguez
Geek Culture
Published in
3 min readDec 4, 2022

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In AWS, authorization to resources can be granted based on the actions that you allow or deny within a given IAM policy. An IAM policy can be attached to an IAM identity (user, group, or role) or directly to a resource as a resource-based policy. The body of an IAM policy contains several elements…

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Alex Rodriguez
Geek Culture

I am an Offensive Security Engineer @ Amazon who writes about cybersecurity and anything related to technology. Opinions are my own.