# AWSBackupGuardDutyRolePolicyForScans
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**Description**: Provides GuardDuty permission to read your AWS Backup Recovery Points for malware scans

`AWSBackupGuardDutyRolePolicyForScans` 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 `AWSBackupGuardDutyRolePolicyForScans` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 20, 2025, 03:34 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 17:59 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSBackupGuardDutyRolePolicyForScans`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v3 (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" : "EBSDirectReadAPIPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks",
        "ebs:ListChangedBlocks",
        "ebs:GetSnapshotBlock"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*::snapshot/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/aws:backup:source-resource" : "false"
        },
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/aws:backup:source-resource" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateGrantForEncryptedVolumeCreation",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "kms:CreateGrant",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:guardduty:id" : "snap-*",
          "kms:ViaService" : [
            "guardduty.*.amazonaws.com",
            "backup.*.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : {
          "kms:GrantOperations" : [
            "Decrypt",
            "CreateGrant",
            "GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext",
            "ReEncryptFrom",
            "ReEncryptTo",
            "RetireGrant",
            "DescribeKey"
          ]
        },
        "Null" : {
          "kms:GrantOperations" : "false"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateGrantForReEncryptAndEBSDirect",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "kms:CreateGrant",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:ebs:id" : "snap-*",
          "kms:ViaService" : [
            "guardduty.*.amazonaws.com",
            "backup.*.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : {
          "kms:GrantOperations" : [
            "Decrypt",
            "ReEncryptFrom",
            "ReEncryptTo",
            "RetireGrant",
            "DescribeKey"
          ]
        },
        "Null" : {
          "kms:GrantOperations" : "false"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DescribeKeyPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "kms:DescribeKey",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EC2ReadAPIPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ShareSnapshotPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/aws:backup:source-resource" : "false"
        },
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/aws:backup:source-resource" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ShareSnapshotKMSPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:ReEncryptTo",
        "kms:ReEncryptFrom"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:ebs:id" : [
            "vol-*",
            "snap-*"
          ],
          "kms:ViaService" : "ec2.*.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateBackupAccessPointPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "backup:CreateBackupAccessPoint"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:backup:*:*:recovery-point:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ReadAndDeleteBackupAccessPointPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "backup:DescribeBackupAccessPoint",
        "backup:DeleteBackupAccessPoint"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "BackupRecoveryPointApiPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "backup:DescribeRecoveryPoint"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:backup:*:*:recovery-point:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DecryptKMSEncryptedDataByAWSBackup",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:backup:backup-vault" : "*",
          "kms:ViaService" : "backup.*.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)