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New comment by talauslander in "Launch HN: Slauth.io (YC S22) – IAM Policy Auto-Generation"

talauslander — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 18:15:00 +0000

That's definitely something we are addressing! Would you like to sign up for the beta? Will love getting your feedback and helping you remediate this pain

New comment by talauslander in "Launch HN: Slauth.io (YC S22) – IAM Policy Auto-Generation"

talauslander — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 18:08:14 +0000

Thanks!

Didn't know about Pike :) Looks interesting, though it is based on a static analysis approach which has its downsides since it might not look the same as the actual activity.

AirIAM was an inspiration for us - it is generally good to group users together and for finding unused policies. We focus on generating an exact policy per identity.

New comment by talauslander in "Launch HN: Slauth.io (YC S22) – IAM Policy Auto-Generation"

talauslander — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:53:26 +0000

We definitely love iamlive! Iamlive is easy to operate manually on a single instance, and outputs the results to the terminal, making it great for local exploration. We focus on observing IAM at scale, collecting data from multiple sources - local / staging / per-developer environments etc. We know to find the relevant IaC code piece and generate policies in the form of Git Pull Requests.

New comment by talauslander in "Launch HN: Slauth.io (YC S22) – IAM Policy Auto-Generation"

talauslander — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:12:31 +0000

To add some more pros, Access Analyzer has limits on the amount of policies you can generate at a certain time and doesn't support all AWS services

New comment by talauslander in "Launch HN: Slauth.io (YC S22) – IAM Policy Auto-Generation"

talauslander — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:38:31 +0000

Thanks! We were partially inspired by it. Our approach is slightly different - we believe we shouldn't be the focal point of IAM but rather integrate with the existing tools organizations use such as Git, Terraform etc