**To list managed policies that are available to your AWS account** This example returns a collection of the first two managed policies available in the current AWS account:: aws iam list-policies --max-items 2 Output:: { "Marker": "AAIWFnoA2MQ9zN9nnTorukxr1uesDIDa4u+q1mEfaurCDZ1AuCYagYfayKYGvu75BEGk8PooPsw5uvumkuizFACZ8f4rKtN1RuBWiVDBWet2OA==", "IsTruncated": true, "Policies": [ { "PolicyName": "AdministratorAccess", "CreateDate": "2015-02-06T18:39:46Z", "AttachmentCount": 5, "IsAttachable": true, "PolicyId": "ANPAIWMBCKSKIEE64ZLYK", "DefaultVersionId": "v1", "Path": "/", "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess", "UpdateDate": "2015-02-06T18:39:46Z" }, { "PolicyName": "ASamplePolicy", "CreateDate": "2015-06-17T19:23;32Z", "AttachmentCount": "0", "IsAttachable": "true", "PolicyId": "Z27SI6FQMGNQ2EXAMPLE1", "DefaultVersionId": "v1", "Path": "/", "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/ASamplePolicy", "UpdateDate": "2015-06-17T19:23:32Z" } ] } For more information, see `Overview of IAM Policies`_ in the *Using IAM* guide. .. _`Overview of IAM Policies`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/policies_overview.html