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Running AWS Services with Restricted User Accounts

Explore how to set up AWS user accounts with restricted access for safe local development with Lambda. Understand necessary policies, CloudFormation access, and profile configuration to manage credentials effectively when working in restricted environments.

For trying out examples in this course, it’s easiest to use access keys assigned to a user with full access to all AWS resources. If you created access keys as suggested in the previous lesson, those keys will have full access to all your resources, so you can skip this lesson.

Restricted privileges account #

If you would like to set up an account with restricted privileges, the user account will need the following policies:

  • arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLambdaFullAccess
  • arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAPIGatewayAdministrator
  • arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/IAMFullAccess
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