# AWSRolesAnywhereReadOnly
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**Description**: Provides read-only permissions to IAM Roles Anywhere resources, including but not limited to: GetTrustAnchor, ListProfiles, GetCRL. There will be no other permissions for other services included in this policy.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: July 16, 2025, 15:07 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:00 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSRolesAnywhereReadOnly`

## 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" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "Profiles",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "rolesanywhere:ListProfiles",
        "rolesanywhere:GetProfile"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:rolesanywhere:*:*:profile/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CRLs",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "rolesanywhere:ListCrls",
        "rolesanywhere:GetCrl"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:rolesanywhere:*:*:crl/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Subjects",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "rolesanywhere:ListSubjects",
        "rolesanywhere:GetSubject"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:rolesanywhere:*:*:subject/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "TrustAnchors",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "rolesanywhere:ListTrustAnchors",
        "rolesanywhere:GetTrustAnchor"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:rolesanywhere:*:*:trust-anchor/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Tags",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "rolesanywhere:ListTagsForResource"
      ],
      "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)