Unique AWS Policy Templates for a Common Role Template

ACM.29: Creating a unique policy for batch jobs whose roles are created with a common CloudFormation template.

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
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6 min readAug 14, 2022

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In the last post we created an AWS CLI profile that works with a role trust policy that requires MFA.

In this post we’re going to add a policy for a role created with a common role template. As explained earlier, we can use the same role CloudFormation template to deploy different roles or our batch jobs.

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

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