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AWS Service Names to IAM Actions

A list of AWS service names to IAM names for use in policies.
I created this list from the policy generator as I couldn't find any documentation anywhere that lists these details.

Service Name IAM name
AWS Billing aws-portal
AWS Cloud Formation cloudformation
AWS CloudTrail cloudtrail
AWS Direct Connect directconnect
AWS Directory Service ds
AWS ElastiCache elasticache
AWS Elastic Beanstalk elasticbeanstalk
AWS Identity and Access Management iam
AWS Import Export importexport
AWS Marketplace aws-marketplace
AWS Marketplace Management Portal aws-marketplace-management
AWS OpsWorks opsworks
AWS Security Token Service sts
AWS Trusted Advisor trustedadvisor
AWS Whispersync whispersync
Amazon AppStream appstream
Amazon CloudFront cloudfront
Amazon CloudSearch cloudsearch
Amazon CloudWatch cloudwatch
Amazon CloudWatch Logs logs
Amazon Cognito Identity cognito-identity
Amazon Cognito Sync cognito-sync
Amazon DynamoDB dynamodb
Amazon EC2 ec2
Amazon Elastic MapReduce elasticmapreduce
Amazon Elastic Transcoder elatictranscoder
Amazon Glacier glacier
Amazon Kinesis kinesis
Amazon Mobile Analytics mobileanalytics
Amazon RDS rds
Amazon Redshift redshift
Amazon Route 53 route53
Amazon Route53 Domains route53domains
Amazon S3 s3
Amazon SES ses
Amazon SNS sns
Amazon SQS sqs
Amazon Simple Workflow Service swf
Amazon SimpleDB sdb
Amazon Storage Gateway storagegateway
Amazon Zocalo zocalo
Auto Scaling autoscaling
Elastic Load Balancing elasticloadbalacing
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