IAM Policy Risk Analyzer — Free Online Tool

Review AWS IAM policy JSON offline for wildcard actions, broad resources, escalation-sensitive permissions, risky NotAction usage, and wildcard principals.

Use this free online IAM Policy Risk Analyzer directly in your browser. No signup required, no data leaves your device. Part of Utilier — a collection of 133+ developer utilities.

What is IAM Policy Risk Analyzer?

IAM Policy Risk Analyzer is an offline least-privilege review tool for AWS IAM JSON policies. It helps developers, DevOps teams, and cloud security reviewers spot risky access patterns before policies are attached to users, groups, roles, or resources.

  • Least privilege review: Flags Action '*' patterns, service wildcards, Resource '*', and broad IAM management permissions.
  • Escalation awareness: Highlights sensitive actions such as iam:PassRole, policy version changes, access key creation, CloudFormation stack changes, and sts:AssumeRole.
  • Trust policy checks: Detects wildcard principals in trust or resource policy statements.

Why use iam policy risk analyzer?

IAM mistakes can quietly grant more power than intended. This tool gives quick local feedback before deployment.

  • Works offline: No AWS account, credentials, or API calls are required.
  • Actionable output: Each finding includes severity, rule ID, statement name, and remediation guidance.
  • Pairs with generators: Use after generating IAM JSON to tighten policies before copy/paste or review.

When to use iam policy risk analyzer

Use whenever you author or review IAM JSON.

  • Reviewing policies generated for CI/CD, Lambda, ECS, EKS, or automation roles.
  • Checking trust policies and resource policies for wildcard principals.
  • Teaching AWS least-privilege concepts without needing an AWS account.

How to use iam policy risk analyzer

Paste a policy and analyze.

  1. Paste IAM JSON: Paste an identity, resource, or trust policy into the input area.
  2. Analyze: Run the offline rule checks.
  3. Reduce scope: Replace wildcards with explicit actions/resources and add useful conditions where appropriate.

Key features

  • Offline JSON analysis: Runs entirely in the browser.
  • Privilege escalation signals: Surfaces actions commonly involved in AWS privilege escalation paths.
  • Least-privilege guidance: Helps users move from broad examples to safer production policies.

Privacy and availability

  • Runs entirely in your browser — zero server processing
  • No signup or account required
  • Works offline once loaded
  • Fast, lightweight, no external dependencies
  • Available as a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox