IAM

Emulates managed identity and access control — the users, roles, and policies you attach to principals, plus the evaluator that decides whether a given action on a given resource is allowed. You create identities, attach JSON policy documents, then ask "can this principal do this?" and get the same allow/deny answer real IAM would give.

Reach for it when your code provisions principals, wires up policies, or gates behaviour on a permission check — so you can exercise those paths without a live cloud account. Under the hood it's an in-memory identity store with a policy engine that parses JSON documents, expands wildcards, and applies explicit-deny precedence.

Create users and roles#

Users and roles are the principals you attach policies to — the equivalent of the identities you'd create before granting any access. Create them first:

import iamdriver "github.com/stackshy/cloudemu/v2/services/iam/driver"

// Create a user
aws.IAM.CreateUser(ctx, iamdriver.UserConfig{
    Name: "alice", Tags: map[string]string{"team": "backend"},
})

// Create a role with a trust policy
aws.IAM.CreateRole(ctx, iamdriver.RoleConfig{
    Name:                "s3-reader",
    AssumeRolePolicyDoc: `{"Version":"2012-10-17","Statement":[...]}`,
})

Attach a policy#

A policy is a JSON document; attaching it to a principal is what grants the permissions inside. Create the managed policy, then attach it by ARN — this is how you model "alice can read this bucket":

policy, _ := aws.IAM.CreatePolicy(ctx, iamdriver.PolicyConfig{
    Name: "read-my-bucket",
    PolicyDocument: `{
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [{
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "s3:GetObject",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/*"
        }]
    }`,
})

aws.IAM.AttachUserPolicy(ctx, "alice", policy.ARN)

Check a permission#

This is the evaluator the rest of your code gates on — it runs the same allow/deny logic as real IAM over everything the principal has attached, so you assert on authorization decisions directly:

allowed, _ := aws.IAM.CheckPermission(ctx, "alice",
    "s3:GetObject", "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/file.txt")
// allowed == true

The wildcard in the policy's Resource (my-bucket/*) matches the concrete object key, so the check returns true.

Behavior & fidelity#

SDK-compat — Live#

Real aws-sdk-go-v2/service/iam, Azure Microsoft.Authorization (RBAC), and GCP IAM clients drive it end-to-end. The full driver semantics — policy evaluation, wildcards, explicit-deny override, and instance profiles — are also available through the Portable Go API shown above. See SDK-Compat.