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IAM Policies – Inheritance

  • Policies can be attached at group level, and all users in the group inherit those permissions.
  • A user can belong to multiple groups and accumulate permissions from all of them.
  • Users can also have directly attached policies (inline or managed) that are evaluated along with inherited ones.
  • Evaluation logic: AWS evaluates all applicable policies (group, user, role) together, and explicit denies always override allows.