Stats
The whole archive in numbers: how often AWS changes its managed policies, when, and which ones.
Total Policies
1,659
Active AWS Managed Policies
Brand New (v1)
50
New AWS services/features
Deprecated
76
Removed from AWS
Most Active
112
ReadOnlyAccess...
Policy Creation by Year
Number of AWS managed policies first tracked each year
Largest Policy
4533 actions
AWSSupportServiceRolePoli...
AWS Services Tracked
449
IAM service namespaces over time
IAM Actions (literals)
15,703
Distinct action strings in managed policies (no wildcards)
Year-over-Year Velocity
Total policy commits per year - new launches vs. updates
Excludes 4 bulk-reformat day(s) where detection logic changes caused false-positive diffs.
Policy Lifecycle
Current version distribution across all policies
40% of policies (660) are still at v1 - created once and never updated.
Monthly Seasonality
Policy change volume by calendar month across all years
re:Invent Pulse
Policy changes during the Nov 15 - Dec 15 window each year
Recently Updated
AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleForGatewayHostSharedALB
AnthropicReadOnlyAccess
AnthropicFullAccess
AnthropicLimitedAccess
IVSReadOnlyAccess
AWSServiceRolePolicyForBackupRestoreTesting
AWSSecurityAgentWebAppPolicy
AmazonEventBridgeReadOnlyAccess
AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy
AWSWellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningServiceRolePolicy
Most Volatile (Trailing 12 Months)
Newest Policies
AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleForGatewayHostSharedALB
AnthropicFullAccess
AnthropicLimitedAccess
AnthropicReadOnlyAccess
IVSReadOnlyAccess
AWSServiceRolePolicyForBackupRestoreTesting
AWSSecurityAgentWebAppPolicy
AmazonEventBridgeReadOnlyAccess
AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy
AWSWellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningServiceRolePolicy
Oldest Policies
AWSOpsWorksRegisterCLI
AmazonMachineLearningRoleforRedshiftDataSource
TagGovernancePolicy
AWSLambdaReplicatorInternal
AmazonEverestServicePolicy
AWSB9InternalServicePolicy
AWSBackupAdminPolicy
AWSBackupOperatorPolicy
AWSCloudTrailFullAccess
AWSDataPipelineRole