Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Security > SEC 02. How do you manage identities for people and machines? > Leverage user groups and attributes

Place users with common security requirements in groups defined by your identity provider, and put mechanisms in place to ensure that user attributes that may be used for access control (e.g., department or location) are correct and updated. Use these groups and attributes, rather than individual users, to control access. This allows you to manage access centrally by changing a user’s group membership or attributes once, rather than updating many individual policies when a user’s access needs change.

See Leverage user groups and attributes for more information.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

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Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

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Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

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Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02GroupsAttributes

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02GroupsAttributes") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02GroupsAttributes'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02GroupsAttributes'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02GroupsAttributes"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/sec02GroupsAttributes"