Amazon newbie here.

I am following along with a book on AWS and I am at the IAM chapter. I noticed that there are roles which got created automatically as I progressed through the book. I would like to ask how safe it is to delete all these roles and start fresh.

CodePudding user response：

Most of the roles that you're showing are

In the example screenshot, you can see I have a service-linked role that was last used 81 days ago, which tells me it's probably an inactive service that I don't care about anymore and I'm safe to delete the role.

All that said, a role does not cost you any money, so if you have valuable resources running in your account and are unsure if a role is in use, err on the side of caution and just leave it.