Policy in AWS refers to a document defining permissions that apply to a user, group, or role; the permissions in turn determine what users can do in AWS. A policy typically allows access to specific actions and can optionally grant that the actions are allowed for specific resources like EC2 instances, Amazon S3 Buckets, and so on. Policies can also explicitly deny access.
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