# AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess
AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess

**Description**: Provides read-only access to the Amazon EKS MCP service. This policy grants permissions to use only read-only tools in the EKS MCP service meant for observability, troubleshooting, retrieving EKS resource information, and getting EKS-optimized suggestions.

`AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess` 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


You can attach `AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details

+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 20, 2025, 17:19 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:02 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess`

## Policy version


**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


```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "eks:DescribeCluster",
        "eks:ListClusters",
        "eks:DescribeNodegroup",
        "eks:ListNodegroups",
        "eks:DescribeAddon",
        "eks:ListAddons",
        "eks:DescribeAccessEntry",
        "eks:ListAccessEntries",
        "eks:DescribeInsight",
        "eks:ListInsights",
        "eks:AccessKubernetesApi"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicyVersion"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "sts:GetCallerIdentity"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:GetQueryResults"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "eks-mcp:InvokeMcp",
        "eks-mcp:CallReadOnlyTool"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more

+ [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)