improve IAM Db loading

policy_sentry/command/initialize.py

@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@
 
 from policy_sentry import set_stream_logger
 from policy_sentry.querying.all import get_all_service_prefixes
-from policy_sentry.shared.awsdocs import (
-    create_database,
-    update_html_docs_directory,
-)
 from policy_sentry.shared.constants import (
     BUNDLED_DATA_DIRECTORY,
     BUNDLED_DATASTORE_FILE_PATH,
@@ -90,6 +86,13 @@ def initialize(
     Initialize the local data file to store AWS IAM information, which can be used to generate IAM policies, and for
     querying the database.
     """
+
+    # importing 'awsdocs' is quite pricey, when it is actually only used for initialize the IAM DB
+    from policy_sentry.shared.awsdocs import (
+        create_database,
+        update_html_docs_directory,
+    )
+
     if not access_level_overrides_file:
         overrides_file = LOCAL_ACCESS_OVERRIDES_FILE
     else:

policy_sentry/shared/iam_data.py

@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import functools
-import json
+import gc
 import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, cast
 
+import orjson
+
 from policy_sentry.shared.constants import (
     DATASTORE_FILE_PATH,
     POLICY_SENTRY_SCHEMA_VERSION_NAME,
@@ -18,7 +20,23 @@
 # On initialization, load the IAM data
 iam_definition_path = DATASTORE_FILE_PATH
 logger.debug(f"Leveraging the IAM definition at {iam_definition_path}")
-iam_definition = json.loads(Path(iam_definition_path).read_bytes())
+
+
+def load_iam_definition() -> dict[str, Any]:
+    gc_enabled = gc.isenabled()
+    if gc_enabled:
+        # https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python?tab=readme-ov-file#performance-tips
+        gc.disable()
+
+    data: dict[str, Any] = orjson.loads(Path(iam_definition_path).read_bytes())
+
+    if gc_enabled:
+        gc.enable()
+
+    return data
+
+
+iam_definition = load_iam_definition()
 
 
 @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1)

requirements.txt

@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ requests==2.32.3
 # Config files and schema validation
 PyYAML==6.0.1
 schema==0.7.7
+# IAM DB
+orjson==3.10.6

setup.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     "requests",
     "schema",
     "PyYAML",
+    "orjson",
 ]
 PROJECT_URLS = {
     "Documentation": "https://policy-sentry.readthedocs.io/",