Implementing least privilege access in an AWS Transfer Family workflow
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This article discusses how to implement least privilege access in an AWS Transfer Family workflow. It explains the importance of limiting access permissions to only what is necessary to perform specific actions, and demonstrates an example architecture with various AWS services and IAM policies.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview and sample architecture
- Prerequisites
- Solution walkthrough with steps to deploy the provided CloudFormation template
- Explanation of least privilege IAM roles and policies for user access control, logging, managed workflows, and custom workflow steps
- Testing the workflow by uploading a CSV file
- Testing exception handling by altering permissions
- Cleaning up the deployed resources
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