AWS IAM changelog 2025
20 announcements, 2025
All AWS IAM changes · 45 announcements since January 2025 · 6 GA · 1 Region expansion
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November 20255
Open source MCP server and CLI generate baseline IAM policies from application code
Exchange IAM credentials for short-lived JWTs to authenticate AWS workloads with external services
New global condition key enforces region-based access control for PrivateLink requests
Delegate limited, temporary access to Amazon and AWS Partner products without persistent IAM rolesGA
Maps SDK operations to the IAM permissions needed to call them, at no extra cost
September 20251
August 20251
June 20255
Annotations for service actions added, starting with action properties
RCP support extended to Amazon ECR and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
Identifies which IAM users and roles can access S3, DynamoDB and RDS resourcesGA
Cross-account access configured by providing target IAM role when creating the association