AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) announces a major update to IAM Policy Simulator , the tool you use to test and validate the permissions your IAM policies grant before you deploy them. This update changes the simulator in three ways: it now lives in the IAM console, it can test service control policies (SCPs), and it adds flexibility to model more of the scenarios that security and platform teams simulate in practice. IAM Policy Simulator is now part of the IAM console, replacing the standalone simulator site, so you can test policies in the same place you manage your identities and p