What is the IAM console search feature?

Introduction to the IAM search feature

We can utilize the IAM console search page as a quicker alternative for searching. Over there, we’ll find access keys related to our account, IAM entities (such as users, groups, roles, and identity providers), policies by title, and so on.

The IAM console search feature can find any of the following:

• IAM entity titles that match our search keywords (for users, groups, roles, identity providers, and policies).

• Tasks that match our search keywords.

Using the IAM console search

To use the IAM console feature:

• We need to sign in to an AWS account.
• Then, we go to the IAM console.
• In the search box, we can search for all the entities that were created earlier.

Let’s consider a scenario in which some entities were already created with the word “user” in them, for testing purposes.

In the search box displayed above, we will type the word “user”. As shown in the screenshot above, the result set lists all the IAM entities with “user” in their names.

The entities can be differentiated based on their icons, as is shown in the screenshot. Every entity has a unique icon associated with it.

Icons in the IAM console search results

Entities have different icons, as is shown below:

Different search phrases

There can be many phrases in the IAM search. We can replace the text that is highlighted with the names of actual IAM users, groups, roles, access keys, policies, or identity providers according to what has been found. Here are some examples:

• Add the user user_name to groups or add users to the group group_name.

• Remove the user user_name from groups.

• Delete the user_name, group_name, role_name, policy_name, and the identity_provider_name.

• Attach the policy to the group_name.

• Attach the policy to the role_name.

• Manage the access keys of user_name.

• Manage signing the certificates for user_name.

• Manage MFA for user_name.

• Manage the password for user_name.

• Create role.

• Password policy.

• Edit the trust policy for the role role_name.

• Show the policy document for the role role_name.