Let's quickly go through some important concepts related to policies in AWS:
- Types of AWS policies include identity-based policies (for example, IAM policies), resource-based policies (for example, S3 bucket policies and IAM role trust policies), permissions boundaries, an organization's service control policy (SCP), ACLs, and session policies.
- An AWS IAM policy's type can be either AWS managed, Job function, or Customer managed. We can check the type from the console on the Policies page within IAM:
- Job function is a subset of AWS managed and is designed to align with common IT job functions. The current list of job functions ...