Monitoring and optimizing the cost of the unused access analyzer in IAM Access Analyzer

This article discusses strategies for monitoring and optimizing the cost of AWS IAM Access Analyzer's unused access analysis feature, which costs $0.20 per IAM role or user analyzed monthly.

• IAM Access Analyzer has two capabilities: external access analysis (free) and unused access analysis (paid)
• Four key cost optimization strategies are recommended:
• Consolidate unused analyzers to a single organizational or account-level analyzer
• Use tags to exclude certain roles or users from analysis
• Regularly clean up unnecessary IAM roles and users
• Monitor costs using AWS Budgets or Cost Anomaly Detection

The goal is to maintain security best practices while keeping IAM Access Analyzer usage costs under control through proactive management and regular review.