# AWSGlobalAcceleratorSLRPolicy
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**Description**: Policy granting permissions to AWS Global Accelerator to manage EC2 Elastic Network Interfaces and Security Groups. 

`AWSGlobalAcceleratorSLRPolicy` 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**: April 05, 2019, 19:39 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** October 29, 2024, 18:23 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AWSGlobalAcceleratorSLRPolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v9 (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" : "EC2Action1",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EC2Action2",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses",
        "ec2:UnassignIpv6Addresses"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/AWSServiceName" : "GlobalAccelerator"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EC2Action3",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ElbAction1",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EC2Action4",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)