# AWSPrivateCAUser
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**Description**: Provides certificate user access to AWS Private Certificate Authority

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: February 14, 2023, 18:16 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:01 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSPrivateCAUser`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v4 (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" : [
        "acm-pca:IssueCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:certificate-authority/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ArnLike" : {
          "acm-pca:TemplateArn" : [
            "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:template/EndEntityCertificate/V*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Deny",
      "Action" : [
        "acm-pca:IssueCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:certificate-authority/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ArnNotLike" : {
          "acm-pca:TemplateArn" : [
            "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:template/EndEntityCertificate/V*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "acm-pca:RevokeCertificate",
        "acm-pca:GetCertificate",
        "acm-pca:ListPermissions"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:certificate-authority/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)