# AWSConnector
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**Description**: Enables broad read/write access to ALL EC2 objects, read/write access to S3 buckets starting with 'import-to-ec2-', and the ability to list all S3 buckets, for the AWS Connector to import VMs on your behalf.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: February 11, 2015, 17:14 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** September 28, 2015, 19:50 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConnector`

## 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" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:GetUser",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:DeleteBucket",
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl",
        "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
        "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:s3:::import-to-ec2-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CancelConversionTask",
        "ec2:CancelExportTask",
        "ec2:CreateImage",
        "ec2:CreateInstanceExportTask",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:DeleteTags",
        "ec2:DeleteVolume",
        "ec2:DescribeConversionTasks",
        "ec2:DescribeExportTasks",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DetachVolume",
        "ec2:ImportInstance",
        "ec2:ImportVolume",
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances",
        "ec2:ImportImage",
        "ec2:DescribeImportImageTasks",
        "ec2:DeregisterImage",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:CancelImportTask",
        "ec2:ImportSnapshot",
        "ec2:DescribeImportSnapshotTasks"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "SNS:Publish"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:sns:*:*:metrics-sns-topic-for-*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)