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IAM service endpoint
How to create an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service endpoint so that we can access IAM service privately. We don't have any option to create VPC endpoint for IAM.
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Hello,
At this point, AWS IAM doesn't integrate with VPC interface endpoint. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/aws-services-privatelink-support.html
The other answer is correct. Adding to it, IAM is a global service, hosted for the main commercial AWS partition in us-east-1. VPCs, including VPC endpoints, by contrast, are regional constructs. I would think this is the main reason (or one of them) why VPC endpoints aren't available for IAM or other global services, such as CloudFront and Route 53, and probably won't be in the immediate future.
On August 22, 2024 AWS announced that AWS Identity and Access Management now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial Regions
The instruction on how to create the VPC endpoint can be found here.
