AWS IAM Decision Mindmap

🎯 1. What level are you controlling? 🔹 A. Account / Organization level Keywords: “limit an account” “restrict services across accounts” “govern multiple accounts” 👉 Use: AWS Organizations + SCP 🔹 B. User / Role level Keywords: “user can access…” “role permission…” “least privilege” 👉 Use: IAM Policy 🔹 C. Cross-account access 👉 Check next 👇 🔍 2. Does the service support Resource Policy? ✅ YES → Use Resource Policy Examples: S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda ...

March 21, 2026 · 1 min · Truong Vu