AWS IAM Service Principal Snippets for VS Code

This VS Code extension provides autocompletion of all AWS services that can be used as Service Principals in your IAM policies.

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Features

1. Auto-completion for AWS Service Principals: Provides intelligent auto-completion suggestions for AWS Service Principals when defining IAM policies or roles.
2. Context-aware Suggestions: The extension intelligently detects when you're working with IAM policies or roles and only suggests Service Principal completions in relevant contexts.
3. Supports Multiple Languages: Supports auto-completion for Service Principals in JSON, YAML, Terraform, and AWS CDK (TypeScript, and Python).

Usage

1. Install the "AWS IAM Service Principal Snippets" extension in VS Code.
2. Open or create a new file (.json, .yml, .tf, .ts, or .py) where you're defining IAM policies or roles.
3. When you reach a point where you need to specify a Service Principal (e.g., Principal key in JSON/YAML policies, assumed_by parameter in Python roles, etc.), start typing the name of the AWS service.
4. The extension will provide auto-completion suggestions for matching AWS Service Principals.
5. Select the desired Service Principal to insert it into your code.

Example of auto-completion in action:

Note: If auto-completion doesn't trigger automatically, press Ctrl+Space (or Cmd+Space on macOS) to manually invoke IntelliSense.

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Support

If you have a feature request or an issue, please let me know on Github

Author

Danny Steenman