# AWSResourceGroupsReadOnlyAccess
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**Description**: This is the read only policy for AWS Resource Groups

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: March 07, 2018, 10:27 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 05, 2019, 17:56 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSResourceGroupsReadOnlyAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v2 (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" : [
    {
      "Action" : [
        "resource-groups:Get*",
        "resource-groups:List*",
        "resource-groups:Search*",
        "tag:Get*",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
        "elasticache:DescribeSnapshots",
        "elasticache:ListTagsForResource",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
        "elasticmapreduce:DescribeCluster",
        "elasticmapreduce:ListClusters",
        "glacier:ListVaults",
        "glacier:DescribeVault",
        "glacier:ListTagsForVault",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "kinesis:DescribeStream",
        "kinesis:ListTagsForStream",
        "opsworks:DescribeStacks",
        "opsworks:ListTags",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeDBSnapshots",
        "rds:ListTagsForResource",
        "redshift:DescribeClusters",
        "redshift:DescribeTags",
        "route53domains:ListDomains",
        "route53:ListHealthChecks",
        "route53:GetHealthCheck",
        "route53:ListHostedZones",
        "route53:GetHostedZone",
        "route53:ListTagsForResource",
        "storagegateway:ListGateways",
        "storagegateway:DescribeGatewayInformation",
        "storagegateway:ListTagsForResource",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:GetBucketTagging",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
        "ssm:ListDocuments"
      ],
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "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)