# AmazonElasticsearchServiceRolePolicy
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**Description**: Allow Amazon Elasticsearch Service to access other AWS services such as EC2 Networking APIs on your behalf.

`AmazonElasticsearchServiceRolePolicy` 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**: July 07, 2017, 00:15 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** October 23, 2023, 06:58 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonElasticsearchServiceRolePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v7 (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" : "Stmt1480452973134",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddListenerCertificates",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RemoveListenerCertificates"
      ],
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973135",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "acm:DescribeCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973136",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "cloudwatch:namespace" : "AWS/ES"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973198",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
        "ec2:ModifyVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:route-table/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973199",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/OpenSearchManaged" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973200",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:ModifyVpcEndpoint",
        "ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/OpenSearchManaged" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973201",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973149",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973150",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:UnAssignIpv6Addresses"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "Stmt1480452973202",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : "CreateVpcEndpoint"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)