# AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-ExecutionRolePolicy
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**Description**: Provides permissions for Remediating issues with SSM services by executing activities defined within Automation Documents, primarily used for running the Automation documents in a target account/region setup by remediating SSM services health across all nodes.

`AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-ExecutionRolePolicy` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-ExecutionRolePolicy` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 16, 2024, 00:17 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 17:58 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-ExecutionRolePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v4 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowReadOnlyAccessSSMResource",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:GetAutomationExecution",
        "ssm:DescribeAutomationExecutions",
        "ssm:DescribeAutomationStepExecutions"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowReadOnlyAccessEC2Resource",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowCreateVpcEndpointForTaggedSecurityGroup",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingSecurityGroups::VPCE::SG" : "VPCEndpointSecurityGroup"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowCreateVpcEndpoint",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "RestrictCreateVpcEndpointForSSMService",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:VpceServiceName" : [
            "com.amazonaws.*.ssm",
            "com.amazonaws.*.ssmmessages",
            "com.amazonaws.*.ec2messages"
          ]
        },
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingVPCEndpoints::VPCE" : "VPCEndpoint"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "RestrictCreateVpcEndpointWithTag",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingVPCEndpoints::VPCE" : "VPCEndpoint",
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateVpcEndpoint"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowModifyVpcAttributeForDns",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:ModifyVpcAttribute"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:Attribute" : [
            "EnableDnsSupport",
            "EnableDnsHostnames"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowSecurityGroupRuleUpdate",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowSecurityGroupRuleUpdateForTaggedResource",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingSecurityGroups::VPCE::SG" : "VPCEndpointSecurityGroup"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowSecurityGroupRuleUpdateWithTag",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group-rule/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingSecurityGroups::SG::Rule" : "HTTPSAccess"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowSecurityGroupRuleUpdateTagRule",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group-rule/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingSecurityGroups::SG::Rule" : "HTTPSAccess",
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
            "AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowCreateSecurityGroupForVPCEndpoint",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowCreateSecurityGroupWithTag",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingSecurityGroups::VPCE::SG" : "VPCEndpointSecurityGroup"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowTagCreationForSecurityGroupTags",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/SystemsManager::FindingNetworkingSecurityGroups::VPCE::SG" : "VPCEndpointSecurityGroup",
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateSecurityGroup"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowExecuteSSMAutomation",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:StartAutomationExecution"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-OrchestrateUnmanagedEC2Actions",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-RemediateSSMAgent*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-execution/*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-OrchestrateUnmanagedEC2Actions:*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-RemediateSSMAgent*:*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowKMSOperations",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:Decrypt",
        "kms:GenerateDataKey"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/SystemsManagerManaged" : "true"
        },
        "ArnLike" : {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:s3:arn" : "arn:aws:s3:::do-not-delete-ssm-diagnosis-*"
        },
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:ViaService" : "s3.*.amazonaws.com"
        },
        "Bool" : {
          "aws:ViaAWSService" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowPassRoleOnSelfToSsm",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-SSM-RemediationExecutionRole*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "ssm.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)