Stats

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

Total Policies

1,662

Active AWS Managed Policies

Brand New (v1)

42

New AWS services/features

Deprecated

79

Removed from AWS

Most Active

112

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
150
26
20201,027 total policies2026

Largest Policy

4533 actions

AWSSupportServiceRolePoli...

AWS Services Tracked

449

IAM service namespaces over time

IAM Actions (literals)

15,785

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
717 total (150 new, 567 updates)
26
UpdatesNew launches4,414 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
660
v2
256
v3
186
v4
115
v5
72
v6-10
238
v11-20
94
v21+
41

40% of policies (660) are still at v1 - created once and never updated.

Most revised

ReadOnlyAccessv190AWSConfigServiceRolePolicyv96SecurityAuditv94SageMakerStudioProjectProvisioningRolePolicyv83SageMakerStudioProjectUserRolePolicyv75

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
342
Oct
634
Nov
350
Dec
re:Invent season (Nov-Dec) - 34% 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

Recently Updated

AmazonRoute53FullAccess

Today/ 8 versions

AWSWellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningServiceRolePolicy

Today/ 4 versions

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today/ 13 versions

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today/ 12 versions

SageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today/ 15 versions

SageMakerStudioUserIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today/ 16 versions

AWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy

Today/ 37 versions

ConsoleFullAccessFromVercel

Today/ 3 versions

AccountManagementFromVercel

Today/ 3 versions

ConsoleViewOnlyAccessFromVercel

Today/ 4 versions

Most Volatile (Trailing 12 Months)

SageMakerStudioProjectUserRolePolicy19 changesReadOnlyAccess17 changesSageMakerStudioProjectProvisioningRolePolicy15 changesAWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy14 changesSageMakerStudioUserIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy13 changesSageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy13 changesSecurityAudit13 changesAWSObservabilityAdminTelemetryEnablementServiceRolePolicy12 changesAIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy11 changesAWS_ConfigRole11 changes

Newest Policies

AmazonRoute53FullAccess

Today

AWSWellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningServiceRolePolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioAdminIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicy

Today

SageMakerStudioUserIAMDefaultExecutionPolicy

Today

ConsoleFullAccessFromVercel

Today

AWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy

Today

AccountManagementFromVercel

Today

ConsoleViewOnlyAccessFromVercel

Today

Oldest Policies

AWSOpsWorksRegisterCLI

7y 8m ago

AmazonMachineLearningRoleforRedshiftDataSource

7y 8m ago

TagGovernancePolicy

7y 8m ago

AWSLambdaReplicatorInternal

7y 4m ago

AmazonEverestServicePolicy

7y 2m ago

AWSB9InternalServicePolicy

7y 1m ago

AWSBackupAdminPolicy

7y 1m ago

AWSBackupOperatorPolicy

7y 1m ago

AWSCloudTrailFullAccess

7y 1m ago

AWSDataPipelineRole

7y 1m ago

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Service growth

When each AWS service first appeared in IAM