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Policy Versioning In AWS

In this article, we will discuss policy versioning in AWS.

What Is Policy Versioning?

Whenever change(s) is done in the policy, AWS maintains the version of the policy. This is called policy versioning.

How Policy Versioning Works?

To see how the policy versioning works, let us create a policy. Please check this article on how to create a policy.

Picture showing the policy created in AWS console

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Now, edit the policy and add one more permission. You will observe that another version of the policy is created.

Picture showing the versions of policy created

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Setting Any Policy Version As Default

You can specify any policy version as default. The purpose of setting the policy version as default is to baseline the policy. You can switch back to the default version of the policy if anything goes wrong.

To set the policy as default, select the policy and click on the Set as default button.

Picture showing the Set As Default button for setting the policy as default

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Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, November 24, 2021

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