POST

/policy/validation

http://access-analyzer.{region}.amazonaws.com/policy/validation

Requests the validation of a policy and returns a list of findings. The findings help you identify issues and provide actionable recommendations to resolve the issue and enable you to author functional policies that meet security best practices.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

maxResultsinteger

The maximum number of results to return in the response.

nextTokenstring

A token used for pagination of results returned.

Body Params

localestring

The locale to use for localizing the findings.

policyTypestringrequired

The type of policy to validate. Identity policies grant permissions to IAM principals. Identity policies include managed and inline policies for IAM roles, users, and groups. They also include service-control policies (SCPs) that are attached to an Amazon Web Services organization, organizational unit (OU), or an account. Resource policies grant permissions on Amazon Web Services resources. Resource policies include trust policies for IAM roles and bucket policies for Amazon S3 buckets. You can provide a generic input such as identity policy or resource policy or a specific input such as managed policy or Amazon S3 bucket policy.

policyDocumentstringrequired

The JSON policy document to use as the content for the policy.

validatePolicyResourceTypestring

The type of resource to attach to your resource policy. Specify a value for the policy validation resource type only if the policy type is <code>RESOURCE_POLICY</code>. For example, to validate a resource policy to attach to an Amazon S3 bucket, you can choose <code>AWS::S3::Bucket</code> for the policy validation resource type. For resource types not supported as valid values, IAM Access Analyzer runs policy checks that apply to all resource policies. For example, to validate a resource policy to attach to a KMS key, do not specify a value for the policy validation resource type and IAM Access Analyzer will run policy checks that apply to all resource policies.

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'http://access-analyzer.{region}.amazonaws.com/policy/validation' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}