AWS Security Cookbook

Creating policies with the IAM visual editor

We can create a policy using the IAM visual editor as follows:

1. Log in to the console as an administrator and go to the IAM dashboard.
2. Click on Policies from the left sidebar.
3. Click on Create Policy. This will provide us with a visual editor:

We can also click on the JSON tab and enter the JSON directly if we have already created the policy JSON.

4. Set the Service to S3.
5. Select ListBucket under Actions.
6. Under Resources, select Specific, click on Add ARN, and enter our bucket's ARN in the format arn:aws:s3:::<bucket_name>.
7. Under Request conditions, click Add condition and add a condition, as follows, ...