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  4. Configuration for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  5. Mandatory probe user privileges

Mandatory probe user privileges

The IAM users needs certain mandatory user privileges for each probes while executing data collecting from AWS policy.

It is required for IAM user to have one or more policy attached having required Actions.

Below is the sample policy for each probe and all probes.

Note:

The character "*" in the attribute "Resource":"*" of the below sample policy denotes that the provided privilege's are for all resources in all geographical regions. For providing resource and region specific access, specify the value accordingly.

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