Your AWS Role Has Too Much Access. Now What?
A simple way to think about AWS IAM permissions before they become a security problem.
One of the easiest AWS security mistakes to make?
Giving something more access than it needs.
Imagine an application only needs to read from one S3 bucket.
Why give it access to every S3 bucket?
That’s the Principle of Least Privilege:
Give an identity only the permissions it needs—and nothing more.
Before attaching an IAM policy, ask yourself:
“If these credentials were compromised, what could an attacker do?”
The smaller the answer, the better.
🔐 Less access = smaller blast radius.
What’s one AWS security practice you think beginners overlook?
Giving something more access than it needs.
Imagine an application only needs to read from one S3 bucket.
Why give it access to every S3 bucket?
That’s the Principle of Least Privilege:
Give an identity only the permissions it needs—and nothing more.
Before attaching an IAM policy, ask yourself:
“If these credentials were compromised, what could an attacker do?”
The smaller the answer, the better.
🔐 Less access = smaller blast radius.
What’s one AWS security practice you think beginners overlook?
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