AWS - Permissions for a Pentest

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These are the permissions you need on each AWS account you want to audit to be able to run all the proposed AWS audit tools:

• The default policy arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess
• To run aws_iam_review you also need the permissions:
  • access-analyzer:List*
  • access-analyzer:Get*
  • iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole
  • access-analyzer:CreateAnalyzer
    • Optional if the client generates the analyzers for you, but usually it's easier just to ask for this permission)
  • access-analyzer:DeleteAnalyzer
    • Optional if the client removes the analyzers for you, but usually it's easier just to ask for this permission)