# AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy
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**Description**: Provides the AWS DDoS Response Team with limited access to your AWS account to assist with DDoS attack mitigation during a high-severity event.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: June 05, 2018, 22:29 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** December 15, 2020, 17:28 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v6 (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" : "SRTAccessProtectedResources",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudfront:List*",
        "route53:List*",
        "elasticloadbalancing:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:Get*",
        "cloudwatch:List*",
        "cloudfront:GetDistribution*",
        "globalaccelerator:ListAccelerators",
        "globalaccelerator:DescribeAccelerator",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "SRTManageProtections",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "shield:*",
        "waf:*",
        "wafv2:*",
        "waf-regional:*",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetWebACL",
        "cloudfront:UpdateDistribution",
        "apigateway:SetWebACL"
      ],
      "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)