# salesforce/cloudsplaining

Cloudsplaining is an AWS IAM Security Assessment tool that identifies violations of least privilege and generates a risk-prioritized report.

Repository: https://github.com/salesforce/cloudsplaining
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cloudsplaining
Homepage: https://cloudsplaining.readthedocs.io/
Language: JavaScript
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: aws, aws-iam, cloud, security, salesforce, aws-security, cloud-security, iam, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-16T15:36:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 64, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2328, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 80, "gap_med": 113, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2244, forks 221 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:29.943584+00:00)

## What it is
Cloudsplaining is an AWS IAM security assessment tool that identifies violations of least privilege in IAM policies. It generates a risk-prioritized HTML report covering data exfiltration, privilege escalation, resource exposure, and credentials exposure risks.

## Use cases
- audit AWS IAM policies for least privilege violations
- find over-permissive IAM roles in my AWS account
- generate a report of IAM privilege escalation risks
- scan IAM policy JSON files for security issues
- identify IAM roles assumable by AWS compute services
- prioritize IAM policy remediation across multiple AWS accounts

## When to choose
- you need automated least-privilege analysis of AWS IAM policies
- you want a risk-prioritized HTML report for remediation planning
- you need to audit IAM across one or many AWS accounts or single policy files

## When to avoid
- you need multi-cloud IAM analysis beyond AWS
- you need real-time IAM enforcement rather than point-in-time assessment
- you need runtime permission boundary detection rather than static policy analysis

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: security, vulnerability-scanning, cli, developer-tools
- domain: security, cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: aws-iam, least-privilege, cloud-security, policy-analysis, risk-assessment, devops

## Member repositories
- salesforce/cloudsplaining (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.943584+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:44:02.550610+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/salesforce/cloudsplaining (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.943584+00:00, sha d6189a91d7c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.