Cloudwatchfullaccessv2

Question

As cloudwatchfullaccess policy is deprecating we have two usergroups attached for this policy and no iam roles, iam users were attached. Can I directly go ahead and detach this policy and attach cloudwatchfullaccessv2 to these user groups? How can I do testing to make sure this new policy is working fine?

Answer

Hello.

I checked the IAM policy diff.
As you can see from the results below, it seems that "autoscaling:Describe*" and "sns:*" are restricted.
Since I had full access to SNS, I think that if I set it to "CloudWatchFullAccessV2", I would not be able to delete anything.
With AutoScaling, "DescribeLifecycleHooks" is removed, so you will no longer be able to see the lifecycle settings from the screen.

diff CloudWatchFullAccess.json CloudWatchFullAccessV2.json
4a5
>             "Sid": "CloudWatchFullAccessPermissions",
7c8,10
<                 "autoscaling:Describe*",
---
>                 "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
>                 "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
>                 "autoscaling:DescribePolicies",
10c13,17
<                 "sns:*",
---
>                 "sns:CreateTopic",
>                 "sns:ListSubscriptions",
>                 "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
>                 "sns:ListTopics",
>                 "sns:Subscribe",
18a26
>             "Sid": "EventsServicePermissions",
28a37
>             "Sid": "OAMReadPermissions",

Cloudwatchfullaccessv2

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