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# Create an IAM Policy

Prisma Cloud provides the ability to create custom IAM policies to fulfill your organization’s IAM requirements. You can build a new IAM policy based on the `config from iam` RQL query and monitor the identities across your cloud environment.

1. Select **Governance**.
2. Select **Add Policy > IAM**.
3. Enter your policy details—**Policy Name** and **Severity**.

   (Optional) Add a **Description** and **Labels**.

   <figure><img src="/files/Y1VmiwkMzQbYTIFlPvsq" alt="iam excessive permissions"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
4. Check `Use Group/Cloud Service Account as violating resource` if you wish to view alert results on AWS role, Azure service principal or GCP account group.
5. Select **Next** and build your RQL query.

   The default option of **New Search** enables you to build a new RQL query from scratch while **Saved Search** enables you to use a RQL query that you previously saved. For example:

   * `config from iam where source.cloud.service.name = 'iam' and source.cloud.resource.type = 'user' and source.cloud.resource.name = 'my-user'`

     Returns the net effective permissions of a user in your cloud account named *my-user*.
   * `config from iam where grantedby.cloud.entity.type = 'group' AND source.cloud.resource.type = 'user'`

     Lists all effective permissions that have been granted to a user by any AWS IAM group.

     A green check mark displays if you entered a valid query.
6. Select the search button.
7. **Save** the policy.

   After you successfully create your new policy, it displays on the **Policies** page.

   <figure><img src="/files/9RsY3qK1jh1HMmsPUAxn" alt="create an iam policy success"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
8. Use the **Filter** to search for custom or default (out-of-the-box) policies.

   <figure><img src="/files/Mf3TuGX7q0F2IC8GFpAF" alt="iam policy filter ootb"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>


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