Creating AWS IAM Password Policies in Terraform

This module will allow you to create a full IAM password policy which is applied to allow your IAM users.

How to use the modue

Simple source the module from your terraform code and pass in the required variables.

module "password-policy" {
  source = "../../modules/aws-iam-password-policy"

  region            = "eu-west-1"
  minimum_length    = 16
  require_lowercase = true
  require_uppercase = true
  require_numbers   = true
  require_symbols   = true
  allow_user_change = true
  hard_expiry       = false
  maximum_age       = 30
  reuse_history     = 24
}

What are the variables?

The module has 5 variables which do the following:

1. Region - which aws region you want the resource to be built in. (Default: eu-west-1)
2. Minimum length - The shortest length a password can be (Default: 16 characters)
3. Require lowercase - Must the password contain lowercase characters (Default: True)
4. Require uppercase - Must the password contain uppercase characters (Default: True)
5. Require numbers - Must the password contain numbers (Default: True)
6. Require symbols - Must the password contain symbols (Default: True)
7. User Change - Whether to allow users to change their own password (Default: True)
8. Harx Expiry - Whether users are prevented from setting a new password after their password has expired (i.e. require administrator reset) (Default: False)
9. Reuse History - The number of previous passwords that users are prevented from reusing. (Default: 24)