UnusedAnalyzer With AWS SDK

This project will be a simple implementation of the UnusedAnalyzer using the AWS SDK for Rust.

What is UnusedAnalyzer

Here is an official blog post about UnusedAnalyzer.

And it's documentation is here.

Why This Project

After studying how the official UnusedAnalyzer works, I don’t quite understand why this feature was designed as a paid feature. After all, its core algorithm is to compare if a - b > c.

So I wanted to make a free version or it with AWS SDK.

How to run

It's a CLI tools, with help message:

cargo run -- --help
Usage: aws-unused-analyzer [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -r, --region <REGION>                        
  -a, --access-key <ACCESS_KEY>                
  -s, --secret-key <SECRET_KEY>                
  -u, --unused-access-age <UNUSED_ACCESS_AGE>  [default: 90]

Instead of running with source code which require cargo toolchain, you can also run with release binary:

aws-unused-analyzer --help

With Arguments Or With Environment Variables

aws-unused-analyzer --a <ACCESS_KEY> --s <SECRET_KEY> -u 30

It will use the arguments first, if not provided, it will use the environment variables.

how to set environment variables for AWS SDK: doc

Wait for a while(depends on the number of IAM Users and Roles), you will get the output file in the current directory.

echo unused_findings.json

{
  "resource": "arn:aws:iam::1234567890:role/TestRole",
  "resource_type": "AwsIamRole",
  "resource_owner_account": "1234567890",
  "id": "99f66ff9-5763-4e8f-9284-f2aebf3df753",
  "finding_details": [
    {
      "UnusedPermissionDetails": {
        "actions": null,
        "service_namespace": "s3",
        "last_accessed": "2024-02-29T12:37:10Z"
      }
    }
  ],
  "finding_type": "UnusedPermission"
}

Roadmap

• Implement the account unused analyzer generating same output as the official one.
• Implement the finding recommendation for UnusedPermission of Role. (updated at 6.18 re:Inforce 2024)
• Implement the organization unused analyzer feature (using user defined role maybe).
• ...to be finded out.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.