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How to Fix iam:GetPolicy Access Errors When Managing IAM Policies

Fix IAM access errors in Impossible Cloud. Learn how to grant permissions to view, update, or attach IAM policies using a simple policy.

If you’re encountering an error like:

your-user is not authorized to perform: iam:GetPolicy on resource: policy

This happens when the calling user or role doesn’t have permission to read IAM policy metadata.

To solve this you can add the following statement to the users policy

{
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowPolicyReadActions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
        "iam:ListPolicyVersions"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ],
  "Version": "2012-10-17"
}

 These actions are required to view IAM policies within Impossible Cloud.