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Yaakov Bressler
Yaakov Bressler

Reputation: 12068

What is the max number of permissions I can assign to a custom policy on AWS?

Say an organization has custom IAM policies from which roles are assigned any number of policies. Is there a max number of permissions per custom policy that can be assigned? Or is the policy size limited by char count?

As far as documentation, I'm not certain if there is a threshold, or if the max value is based on bytes, or n characters:

Q: How many policies can I attach to an IAM role?
For inline policies: You can add as many inline policies as you want to a user, role, or group, but the total aggregate policy size (the sum size of all inline policies) per entity cannot exceed the following limits:

  • User policy size cannot exceed 2,048 characters.
  • Role policy size cannot exceed 10,240 characters.
  • Group policy size cannot exceed 5,120 characters.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5430

Answers (1)

Lior Z
Lior Z

Reputation: 668

The docs you reference seem fairly straightforward; according to what you quote the limit is on the sum of characters in all the inline policies attached to the user / role / group

Upvotes: 2

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