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Full version history and diffs for 1558 AWS Managed IAM Policies, archived since 2019. | A service by zoph.io

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Endpoint Signals

46 regions, 310 services tracked from botocore

New Servicedrs (1 endpoint)aws-eusc
Expansionapi.tunneling.ioteu-south-1il-central-1aws
Expansiondata-ats.ioteu-south-1il-central-1aws
Expansionioteu-south-1il-central-1aws
Expansioncloudhsmv2ap-southeast-7aws

Policy Creation by Year

Number of AWS managed policies first tracked each year

176
20
143
21
119
22
150
23
154
24
135
25
46
26
2020923 total policies2026

Largest Policy

4054 actions

AWSSupportServiceRolePoli...

AWS Services Tracked

431

IAM service namespaces over time

IAM Actions (literals)

14,117

Distinct action strings in managed policies (no wildcards)

Year-over-Year Velocity

Total policy commits per year - new launches vs. updates

627 total (176 new, 451 updates)
20
488 total (143 new, 345 updates)
21
552 total (119 new, 433 updates)
22
669 total (150 new, 519 updates)
23
606 total (154 new, 452 updates)
24
753 total (135 new, 618 updates)
25
201 total (46 new, 155 updates)
26
UpdatesNew launches3,896 total commits tracked

Excludes 4 bulk-reformat day(s) where detection logic changes caused false-positive diffs.

Policy Lifecycle

Current version distribution across all policies

v1
614
v2
226
v3
193
v4
107
v5
64
v6-10
225
v11-20
95
v21+
34

39% of policies (614) are still at v1 - created once and never updated.

Monthly Seasonality

Policy change volume by calendar month across all years

257
Jan
277
Feb
326
Mar
340
Apr
259
May
300
Jun
274
Jul
296
Aug
269
Sep
314
Oct
634
Nov
350
Dec
re:Invent season (Nov-Dec) - 52% above average

re:Invent Pulse

Policy changes during the Nov 15 - Dec 15 window each year

100 changes, 50 new
20
107 changes, 34 new
21
87 changes, 29 new
22
129 changes, 25 new
23
138 changes, 59 new
24
145 changes, 33 new
25
UpdatesNew launches