Additional setup options for AWS Cloud9 - AWS Cloud9
Step 1: Create a customer managed policyStep 2: Add customer managed policies to a groupNext steps

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Additional setup options for AWS Cloud9

This topic assumes you already completed the setup steps in Team Setup or Enterprise Setup.

In Team Setup or Enterprise Setup, you created groups and added AWS Cloud9 access permissions directly to those groups. This is to ensure that users in those groups can access AWS Cloud9. In this topic, you add more access permissions to restrict the kinds of environments that users in those groups can create. This can help control costs related to AWS Cloud9 in AWS accounts and organizations.

To add these access permissions, you create your own set of policies that define the AWS access permissions you want to enforce. We call each of these a customer managed policy. Then, you attach those customer managed policies to the groups that the users belong to. In some scenarios, you must also detach existing AWS managed policies that are already attached to those groups. To set this up, follow the procedures in this topic.

Note

The following procedures cover attaching and detaching policies for AWS Cloud9 users only. These procedures assume you already have a separate AWS Cloud9 users group and AWS Cloud9 administrators group. They also assume that you have only a limited number of users in the AWS Cloud9 administrators group. This AWS security best practice can help you better control, track, and troubleshoot issues with AWS resource access.

Step 1: Create a customer managed policy

You can create a customer managed policy using the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Note

This step covers creating a customer managed policy for IAM groups only. To create a custom permission set for groups in AWS IAM Identity Center, skip this step and follow the instructions in Create Permission Set in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide. In this topic, follow the instructions to create a custom permission set. For related custom permissions policies, see Customer managed policy examples for teams using AWS Cloud9 later in this topic.

Step 1.1: Create a customer managed policy using the console

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, if you aren't already signed in.

    We recommend you sign in using credentials for an administrator user in your AWS account. If you can't do this, check with your AWS account administrator.

  2. Open the IAM console. To do this, in the console's navigation bar, choose Services. Then choose IAM.

  3. In the service's navigation pane, choose Policies.

  4. Choose Create policy.

  5. In the JSON tab, paste one of our suggested customer managed policy examples.

    Note

    You can also create your own customer managed policies. For more information, see the IAM JSON Policy Reference in the IAM User Guide and the AWS service's documentation.

  6. Choose Review policy.

  7. On the Review policy page, type a Name and an optional Description for the policy, and then choose Create policy.

Repeat this step for each additional customer managed policy that you want to create. Then, skip ahead to Add customer managed policies to a group using the console.

Step 1.2: Create a customer managed policy using the AWS CLI

  1. On the computer where you run the AWS CLI, create a file to describe the policy (for example, policy.json).

    If you create the file with a different file name, substitute it throughout this procedure.

  2. Paste one of our suggested customer managed policy examples into the policy.json file.

    Note

    You can also create your own customer managed policies. For more information, see the IAM JSON Policy Reference in the IAM User Guide and the AWS services' documentation.

  3. From the terminal or command prompt, switch to the directory that contains the policy.json file.

  4. Run the IAM create-policy command, specifying a name for the policy and the policy.json file.

    aws iam create-policy --policy-document file://policy.json --policy-name MyPolicy

    In the preceding command, replace MyPolicy with a name for the policy.

Skip ahead to Add customer managed Policies to a Group Using the AWS CLI.

Step 2: Add customer managed policies to a group

You can add customer managed policies to a group by using the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). For more information, see Customer managed policy examples for teams using AWS Cloud9.

Note

This step covers adding customer managed policies to IAM groups only. To add custom permission sets to groups in AWS IAM Identity Center, skip this step and follow the instructions in Assign User Access in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide instead.

Step 2.1: Add customer managed policies to a group using the console

  1. With the IAM console open from the previous procedure, in the service's navigation pane, choose Groups.

  2. Choose the group's name.

  3. On the Permissions tab, for Managed Policies, choose Attach Policy.

  4. In the list of policy names, choose the box next to each customer managed policy that you want to attach to the group. If you don't see a specific policy name in the list, enter the policy name in the Filter box to display it.

  5. Choose Attach Policy.

Step 2.2: Add customer managed policies to a group using the AWS CLI

Note

If you're using AWS managed temporary credentials, you can't use a terminal session in the AWS Cloud9 IDE to run some or all of the commands in this section. To address AWS security best practices, AWS managed temporary credentials don’t allow some commands to be run. Instead, you can run those commands from a separate installation of the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Run the IAM attach-group-policy command, specifying the group's name and the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the policy.

aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name MyGroup --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/MyPolicy

In the preceding command, replace MyGroup with the name of the group. Replace 123456789012 with the AWS account ID. And replace MyPolicy with the name of the customer managed policy.

Next steps

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