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A CloudWatch Alarm that triggers when changes are made to IAM policies. Events include IAM policy creation/deletion/update operations as well as attaching/detaching policies from IAM users, roles or groups.
Prerequisites: This Alarm requires CloudTrail enabled, with events sent to a CloudWatch Log Group. See Related Configuration Items for configuration to enable CloudTrail/CloudWatch, or enter the CloudWatch Log Group name under the Metric Filter Configuration section.
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: ''
Resources:
SnsTopicMetricFilterCloudWatchAlarm:
Type: 'AWS::SNS::Topic'
Properties:
Subscription:
- Endpoint: email@example.com
Protocol: email
TopicName: alarm-action
CloudWatchAlarm:
Type: 'AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm'
Properties:
AlarmName: iam_policy_changes
AlarmDescription: 'A CloudWatch Alarm that triggers when changes are made to IAM policies. Events include IAM policy creation/deletion/update operations as well as attaching/detaching policies from IAM users, roles or groups.'
MetricName: IAMPolicyEventCount
Namespace: CloudTrailMetrics
Statistic: Sum
Period: '300'
EvaluationPeriods: '1'
Threshold: '1'
ComparisonOperator: GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold
AlarmActions:
- Ref: SnsTopicMetricFilterCloudWatchAlarm
TreatMissingData: notBreaching
MetricFilterCloudWatchAlarm:
Type: 'AWS::Logs::MetricFilter'
Properties:
LogGroupName: ''
FilterPattern: '{($.eventName=DeleteGroupPolicy)||($.eventName=DeleteRolePolicy)||($.eventName=DeleteUserPolicy)||($.eventName=PutGroupPolicy)||($.eventName=PutRolePolicy)||($.eventName=PutUserPolicy)||($.eventName=CreatePolicy)||($.eventName=DeletePolicy)||($.eventName=CreatePolicyVersion)||($.eventName=DeletePolicyVersion)||($.eventName=AttachRolePolicy)||($.eventName=DetachRolePolicy)||($.eventName=AttachUserPolicy)||($.eventName=DetachUserPolicy)||($.eventName=AttachGroupPolicy)||($.eventName=DetachGroupPolicy)}'
MetricTransformations:
- MetricValue: '1'
MetricNamespace: CloudTrailMetrics
MetricName: IAMPolicyEventCount
Parameters: {}
Metadata: {}
Conditions: {}