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Reputation: 1

Lambda - How to create customer managed policy?

Background:

IAM policies can be created in two ways:

Below SAM template is creating inline policy:

Resources:
  HelloWorldFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function 
    Properties:
      CodeUri: hello-world/
      Handler: app.LambdaHandler
      Runtime: nodejs8.10
      Policies:
      - Statement:
        - Sid: AccessToS3Policy
          Effect: Allow
          Action:
          - s3:GetObject
          - s3:GetObjectACL
          Resource: 'arn:aws:s3:::some-bucket/*'

in the resultant role, as shown below:

{
   "roleName": "somestack-HelloWorldFunctionRole-AAAAAAAA",
   "policies": [
   {
      "document": {
        "Statement": [
          {
            "Action": [
              "s3:GetObject",
              "s3:GetObjectACL"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::some-bucket/*",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Sid": "AccessToS3Policy"
          }
        ]
      },
      "name": "HelloWorldFunctionRolePolicy0",
      "type": "inline"
    },
    .....
   ]
 }

In case of Lambda function,

1) How to create Customer managed policy?

2) How inline policy different from Customer managed policy?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 898

Answers (1)

Matus Dubrava
Matus Dubrava

Reputation: 14462

If you are using this syntax in your SAM template

Policies:
      - Statement:
        - Sid: AccessToS3Policy
          Effect: Allow
          Action:
          - s3:GetObject
          - s3:GetObjectACL
          Resource: 'arn:aws:s3:::some-bucket/*'

It will automatically create inline policy. If you want to create customer managed policy instead of inline policy then you need to define the policy as a separate Resource in you template and reference it in policies. Or you can create the role outside of the template (e.g. via AWS console) and reference that policy, in the same way you would reference AWS managed policy.

How inline policy different from Customer managed policy?

I wouldn't really say that inline policy is the old way of doing things. The only difference between inline policy and customer managed policy is that inline policy cannot be reused (you cannot assign inline policy to two or more entities). But this can often be handy if you need a specific policy that you are not planning to reuse in future.

Upvotes: 3

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