# AWSCloud9User
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**Description**: Provides permission to create AWS Cloud9 development environments and to manage owned environments.

`AWSCloud9User` 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 `AWSCloud9User` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 30, 2017, 16:16 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:00 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloud9User`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v12 (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" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloud9:UpdateUserSettings",
        "cloud9:GetUserSettings",
        "cloud9:GetMigrationExperiences",
        "iam:GetUser",
        "iam:ListUsers",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloud9:CreateEnvironmentEC2",
        "cloud9:CreateEnvironmentSSH"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "cloud9:OwnerArn" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloud9:GetUserPublicKey"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "cloud9:UserArn" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloud9:DescribeEnvironmentMemberships"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "cloud9:UserArn" : "true",
          "cloud9:EnvironmentId" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "cloud9.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:StartSession",
        "ssm:GetConnectionStatus"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ssm:resourceTag/aws:cloud9:environment" : "*"
        },
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:CalledViaFirst" : "cloud9.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:StartSession"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:session/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)