# AmazonEMRCleanupPolicy
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**Description**: Allows the actions that EMR requires to terminate and delete AWS EC2 resources if the EMR Service role has lost that ability.

`AmazonEMRCleanupPolicy` 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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This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows the service to perform actions on your behalf. You cannot attach this policy to your users, groups, or roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service-linked role policy 
+ **Creation time**: September 26, 2017, 23:54 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** September 29, 2020, 21:11 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonEMRCleanupPolicy`

## 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" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances",
        "ec2:CancelSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumeStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DetachVolume",
        "ec2:DeleteVolume",
        "ec2:DescribePlacementGroups",
        "ec2:DeletePlacementGroup"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [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)