aws-iam-reference

A list of all known IAM actions; and a way of updating that list.

Why?

Because sometimes it's just handy to have the list of IAM actions, all in one place. For example, if you can almost remember the name of the action, but not quite, this list can be quite a handy reference.

It's also informative to observe the history of the list, as new actions are added.

I wish AWS provided this information themselves somewhere, in a supported, machine-readable form. But if they do provide it, I haven't found it yet.

Using the list

It's one action per line, plain text format: all-actions.txt

For example, to see all CloudWatch Events actions: grep ^events: all-actions.txt

Updating the list

Requires curl, ruby, node, and jq.

Run make update; review the results.

The update works by reading JavaScript assets used by the AWS Policy Generator https://awspolicygen.s3.amazonaws.com/policygen.html. It's very much an unsupported method though, so the update scripts might need updating from time to time.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the LICENSE file.