granted VS consoleme

You're going to love https://granted.dev. It can be extended further, as we've done internally: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/overhauling-aws-account-a...

Like most problems I started with the typical search for AWS SSO CLI and console related tools to help out. One of the write-ups that stood out for me was from Corey Quinn - taking aws logins for granted (fun fact: the title of this article was almost identical without me even noticing, you win this round Corey). The article really hit home the problems I was having and suggested the use of Granted (github link) (Granted.dev has some nice info).

https://granted.dev uses FF containers. You can auth via CLI and then log into all of your accounts in separate container tabs

If you’re using multiple accounts, https://granted.dev/ is an awesome tool to federate into multiple accounts on the same browser at the same time.

Here’s how Granted CLI works. Run the assume command in your terminal and pick which AWS profile to sign in to (in my case, testing):

https://granted.dev/ can make this a lot easier.

Why are you using (very expensive) GPT, or any LLM for that matter, when this was already a solved problem using rulesets? Netflix for example has open source that does this already: https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme

Instead of analyzing your code, you just run your code with no permissions and it automatically detects permission failures and thens open those permissions, with a UI showing you what it did so you can remove any permissions you don't want.

That actually seems much more secure than trying to divine the rules from reading the code.

What value is the LLM adding here?

You may also want to look into Netflix’s ConsoleMe https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme

This is the way. I’ve seen this happen countless times. It’s happened to me too. It’s happened to colleagues.

The worst case I’m aware of from first-hand knowledge was a large cluster of resources that got deployed for a product demo by a sales engineer and forgotten about. Turned into a nice ~$100,000 surprise in the quarterly budget.

Netflix built a tool for managing IAM permission requests as an auditable workflow, called ConsoleMe: https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme

There’s this tool as well https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme among others, check them out and see if the overhead is ok for you all now, but keep it simple to start.

Perhaps Consoleme from Netflix is a useful tool for you?

For sure, you can DM me. Might want to check out https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme too

The tool is in a similar space to iamlive, policy_sentry, and consoleme (all of which are worth checking out too if you're interested in making AWS security easier) but the main points of difference I see are:

After you read the resources, you can stand on the "shoulders of giants" https://github.com/Netflix/consoleme