5 engineers on Hacker News describe using AWS IAM first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“So much easier to use IAM policies.”
endorse · production · nijave · 2026-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“its pretty random that we are still manually creating IAM policies and need to get accustomed with the thousands of different permissions”
regret · production · DanielSlauth · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all internal authentication and networking being controlled by IAM rather than security groups/VPC/traditional networking”
endorse · production · 1.5 yr · not_kurt_godel · 2018-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“More cross account permissions, more IAM. Now prod and staging can access the analytics bucket, cool!”
neutral · production · efxhoy · 2023-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IAM roles used by the Lambdas and Step Functions”
neutral · production · lovehashbrowns · 2020-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?