AWS IAM
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
3warn against
Nov 15, 2025first mention
Oct 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“IAM has always worked, even during control plane impairments”
“So much easier to use IAM policies.”
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“The entire point of the IAM roles is to make everything a matter of policy rather than procedure.”
manages team access and auditson “20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job”
Caveats and dissent
“AWS has produced a long, rambling and imprecise description”
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“The only one that still drives me insane is IAM. That product makes me feel dumb every time I use it”
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left 2 mentions
- Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe 1 mention
- Dots: Always-on agents 1 mention
- 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job 1 mention
- OIDC Workload Identity on AWS 1 mention
- AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you've never heard of) 1 mention
Data: aws-iam.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“IAM has always worked, even during control plane impairments”
“is a pain in the ass to manage”
“AWS has produced a long, rambling and imprecise description”
“So much easier to use IAM policies.”
“The entire point of the IAM roles is to make everything a matter of policy rather than procedure.”
> Update: after years of being on the wish list of a ton of top AWS teams, AWS released a built-in version of this feature about two weeks after we published this. Never let it be said gentle ribbing doesn’t work. Also, thanks AWS! We meant it when we said that the only thing better than having something easy to deploy was not needing to deploy anything at all. Everything in this post about workload identity is still
“The only one that still drives me insane is IAM. That product makes me feel dumb every time I use it”