AWS Managed Policy Changes: Summer 2026
Every summer I tell myself AWS will slow down a bit. It never does. Four months, 248 new policy versions, 93 new policies and 1,022 IAM actions that never showed up in a managed policy before. That is roughly twice last summer. And September is not even over (AWS will probably ship a few more before Wednesday). Here is what changed in AWS managed IAM policies in Summer 2026 (June to September), straight from the IAMTrail archive. Every policy below links to its full version history and diffs. ...