A developer is building a multi-tenant application that uses an AWS Lambda function and an...

The safest way to prevent cross-tenant data leakage during processing is to enforce tenant isolation at the authorization layer, not only in application logic. AWS supports this with ABAC (attribute-based access control) using IAM principal/session tags and policy condition keys. The goal is to ensure that, for each invocation, the function can access only the S3 prefix and DynamoDB items that match the tenant being processed.

First, the Lambda execution role should be permitted to assume a dedicated data access role (B). This creates a clear separation: the execution role has minimal base permissions and can obtain tenant-scoped permissions only by assuming the data role.

Second, the Lambda function should assume that data access role with the tenant name as a session tag and then use the temporary credentials for all S3/DynamoDB calls (F). Session tagging ties the caller’s identity attributes (tenant) to the credentials used for data access.

Third, attach policies to the data access role that restrict access using conditions that compare the session tag to the requested resource attributes (C). For S3, policies can restrict access to object ARNs like arn:aws:s3:::bucket/${aws:PrincipalTag/tenant}/*. For DynamoDB, policies can restrict access by partition key using dynamodb:LeadingKeys so the role can read/write only items whose partition key equals the tenant tag. This ensures that even if the function code has a bug or receives unexpected input, AWS authorization prevents it from reading or writing another tenant’s data.

Option A is not required as stated; you typically need permission to pass session tags (and the trust/policy must allow tagging), but the key actions here are: enable assume role (B), enforce tag-based data policies (C), and actually assume the role with tenant tag (F). Option D is not generally the primary control for DynamoDB; the standard enforcement is via IAM identity policies (and dynamodb:LeadingKeys). Option E (RCP) is an AWS Organizations guardrail and is not necessary for this single-application isolation pattern.