AWS IAM · Question 11 of 12

A new IAM user without any attached policy tries to launch an EC2 instance. What happens and why?

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C The request is denied because everything is denied without an allow

Explanation

IAM works with an implicit deny: every action is denied until a policy explicitly allows it. Users are global and not tied to a Region, and there are no approval requests to root.

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