# AWSApplicationAutoscalingElastiCacheRGPolicy
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**Description**: Policy granting permissions to Application Auto Scaling to access Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon CloudWatch.

`AWSApplicationAutoscalingElastiCacheRGPolicy` 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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This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows the service to perform actions on your behalf. You cannot attach this policy to your users, groups, or roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service-linked role policy 
+ **Creation time**: August 17, 2021, 23:41 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** March 26, 2025, 17:37 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AWSApplicationAutoscalingElastiCacheRGPolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v2 (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" : "ElastiCacheActionsOnAllClusters",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticache:DescribeReplicationGroups",
        "elasticache:ModifyCacheCluster",
        "elasticache:ModifyReplicationGroupShardConfiguration",
        "elasticache:IncreaseReplicaCount",
        "elasticache:DecreaseReplicaCount",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheParameters"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchActionsOnAllAlarms",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchActionsOnTargetTrackingAlarms",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:TargetTracking*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [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)