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Compliance · High severity

IAM Role with AdministratorAccess Policy

The role can do anything in the account, so any compromise of it is a full account compromise.

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AWSprovider
Highseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

AWS

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Replace AdministratorAccess on IAM role.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
IAM Roles on AWS
The fix, by hand
  1. Go to IAM Console → Roles → select the role.
  2. Identify the actual AWS services and actions this role requires.
  3. Detach AdministratorAccess (arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess).
  4. Create or attach specific AWS-managed or customer-managed policies scoped to the minimum required permissions.
  5. Use IAM Access Analyzer to generate a least-privilege policy based on CloudTrail activity.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-081
Full reference

IAM Role With AdministratorAccess Policy

Related checks

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