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Implementing Fine-Grained Access Control for DynamoDB

In this lab, we will create fine-grained access control IAM policies and attach them to provided IAM roles, and then test that the roles we have created are working as expected.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

30m

Published

Nov 22, 2019

Challenge

Create and Attach Policy for FGACUser IAM Role
1. Navigate to the IAM web console.
2. Select Policies.
3. Click Create policy.
4. Create a policy that only allows access to the attributes specified in the lab information.
5. Attach the create policy to the FGACUser IAM role.
Challenge

Create and Attach Policy for FGACAdmin IAM Role
1. Navigate to IAM web console.
2. Select Policies.
3. Click Create policy.
4. Create a policy that provides general read access to the pinehead_records_s2 DynamoDB table.
5. Attach the created policy to the FGACAdmin IAM role.

Challenge

Test Your Policies from the Provided EC2 Instance

Run the following commands — the first should result in an AccessDeniedException. The last two should return 10 items each.

aws dynamodb scan --table-name pinehead_records_s2 --profile fgacuser

aws dynamodb scan --table-name pinehead_records_s2 --profile fgacuser --projection-expression "artist_name,id,album_art,title"

aws dynamodb scan --table-name pinehead_records_s2 --profile fgacadmin

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