AWS managed policies for AWS CloudFormation

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. AWS managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.

Keep in mind that AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all AWS customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.

You cannot change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. If AWS updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. AWS is most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new AWS service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: AWSCloudFormationFullAccess

You can attach AWSCloudFormationFullAccess to your users, groups, and roles.

This policy grants permissions that allow full access to CloudFormation actions and resources.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSCloudFormationFullAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide.

AWS managed policy: AWSCloudFormationReadOnlyAccess

You can attach AWSCloudFormationReadOnlyAccess to your users, groups, and roles.

This policy grants permissions that allow read-only access to CloudFormation resources and actions.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSCloudFormationReadOnlyAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide.

CloudFormation updates to AWS managed policies

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