
![I AM LEGEND](/assets/images/blog/2022/05/21/00-cover.jpg)

Don't worry I'm not about to write a blog post about the boring old Will Smith movie from 2007, nor am I that narcissistic
that I'm going to title a blog post 'I AM LEGEND' and have it be about me :)

No today I want to highlight a particularly cool VS Code extension that I recently discovered.

I've been writing a lot of AWS IAM policies recently and if you know anything about AWS IAM it's that there are a lot of 
permissions. My usual flow was think about the policy, search the web for the AWS documentation page for the service(s) 
that the policy targets, and then scroll through the available permissions until I find the ones I am interested in. 

# Enter IAM Legend. 

This little extension does one thing, and it does it extremely well. Anytime you are writing an IAM policy statement it 
provides full auto-complete for all available actions and displays information on what each one does. 

![IAM Legend Plugin Demo](/assets/images/blog/2022/05/21/01-iam-legend.png)

You can narrow the list of options down by typing the service:

![IAM Legend Plugin Demo](/assets/images/blog/2022/05/21/02-iam-legend.png)

If you keep tying then it narrows the available actions down further.

![IAM Legend Plugin Demo](/assets/images/blog/2022/05/21/03-iam-legend.png)

And that's IAM Legend. As I said it does one thing and does it well. That said, I do hope it gets extended a bit, it 
would be nice if it could auto suggest AWS Service Principals too. 

The extension is also only available for VSCodium/Code, I do miss this when using my usual JetBrains IDE's.
In fact, I pretty much only open VSCodium to write IAM policies using this extension.




I AM LEGEND!