IAM/Policy question: how to get all available Actions that can be listed in a policy document?

JI Ioannidis

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Sep 11, 2015, 9:39:51 PM9/11/15

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The Console -> IAM -> Policies -> Create Policy -> Policy Generator wizard provides a list of AWS Services, and for each service a list of available actions. Knowing Amazon, it is not possible that someone hardwired those into the web page -- they are being generated with an API call.

Anyone know what that API call is? I haven't been able to find it in either the general API reference, or the boto3 reference.

As a concrete example, this is what I want to do; let's say I'm writing my own little policy creation engine, and I want to let my users pick from a (restricted) set of actions to enable. Recall that a policy document is a json object that looks like this:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:DeleteSSHPublicKey",
        "iam:GetSSHPublicKey",
        "iam:ListSSHPublicKeys",
        "iam:UpdateSSHPublicKey",
        "iam:UploadSSHPublicKey"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:user/${aws:username}"
    }
  ]
}

this particular one is https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?region=us-east-1#policies/arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/IAMUserSSHKeys

How can I programmatically get the list of all the available "iam:*" actions? And by that I don't mean "scrape web pages"!

Thanks

/ji

Victor Trac

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Sep 11, 2015, 10:41:09 PM9/11/15

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Here you go:

https://awsiamconsole.s3.amazonaws.com/iam/assets/js/bundles/policies.js

Have fun. :)

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JI Ioannidis

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Sep 12, 2015, 3:32:51 PM9/12/15

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On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 10:41:09 PM UTC-4, Victor Trac wrote:

Here you go:

https://awsiamconsole.s3.amazonaws.com/iam/assets/js/bundles/policies.js

Have fun. :)