Stats

The whole archive in numbers: how often AWS changes its managed policies, when, and which ones.

Total Policies

1,686

Active AWS Managed Policies

Brand New (v1)

37

New AWS services/features

Deprecated

82

Removed from AWS

Most Active

114

ReadOnlyAccess...

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
174
26
20201,051 total policies2026

Largest Policy

4674 actions

AWSSupportServiceRolePoli...

AWS Services Tracked

453

IAM service namespaces over time

IAM Actions (literals)

16,429

Distinct action strings in managed policies (no wildcards)

Year-over-Year Velocity

Total policy commits per year - new launches vs. updates

629 total (176 new, 453 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
913 total (174 new, 739 updates)
26
UpdatesNew launches4,610 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
661
v2
259
v3
194
v4
119
v5
77
v6-10
235
v11-20
100
v21+
41

39% of policies (661) are still at v1 - created once and never updated.

Most revised

ReadOnlyAccessv192AWSConfigServiceRolePolicyv97SecurityAuditv95SageMakerStudioProjectProvisioningRolePolicyv85SageMakerStudioProjectUserRolePolicyv77

Monthly Seasonality

Policy change volume by calendar month across all years

257
Jan
277
Feb
326
Mar
368
Apr
326
May
392
Jun
377
Jul
399
Aug
366
Sep
442
Oct
730
Nov
350
Dec
re:Invent season (Oct-Dec) - 32% above average

re:Invent Pulse

Policy changes from October 1 through December 31 each year. Season archive

191 changes, 74 new
20
171 changes, 53 new
21
203 changes, 51 new
22
226 changes, 41 new
23
248 changes, 88 new
24
261 changes, 48 new
25
222 changes, 26 new
26
UpdatesNew launches

Recently Updated

AWSSecurityAgentWebAppPolicy

Today/ 9 versions

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today/ 17 versions

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today/ 16 versions

SageMakerStudioUserIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today/ 19 versions

SageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today/ 18 versions

AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy

Today/ 16 versions

ROSAControlPlaneOperatorPolicy

Today/ 7 versions

SageMakerStudioEMRInstanceRolePolicy

Today/ 3 versions

AWSObservabilityAdminTelemetryEnablementServiceRolePolicy

Today/ 14 versions

SageMakerStudioEMRContainersSystemNamespaceRolePolicy

Today/ 4 versions

Most Volatile (Trailing 12 Months)

SageMakerStudioProjectUserRolePolicy20 changesReadOnlyAccess18 changesAIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy16 changesAWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy16 changesSageMakerStudioProjectProvisioningRolePolicy15 changesSageMakerStudioUserIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy15 changesSageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy15 changesAWSMarketplaceSellerFullAccess14 changesSageMakerStudioAdminIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy14 changesAWSObservabilityAdminTelemetryEnablementServiceRolePolicy13 changes

Newest Policies

AWSSecurityAgentWebAppPolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today

AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioUserIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today

ROSAControlPlaneOperatorPolicy

Today

AWSObservabilityAdminTelemetryEnablementServiceRolePolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioEMRInstanceRolePolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioEMRContainersSystemNamespaceRolePolicy

Today

Oldest Policies

AWSOpsWorksRegisterCLI

7y 9m ago

AmazonMachineLearningRoleforRedshiftDataSource

7y 9m ago

TagGovernancePolicy

7y 9m ago

AWSLambdaReplicatorInternal

7y 5m ago

AmazonEverestServicePolicy

7y 3m ago

AWSB9InternalServicePolicy

7y 2m ago

AWSBackupAdminPolicy

7y 2m ago

AWSBackupOperatorPolicy

7y 2m ago

AWSCloudTrailFullAccess

7y 2m ago

AWSDataPipelineRole

7y 2m ago

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When each AWS service first appeared in IAM