# AmazonKinesisAnalyticsReadOnly
AmazonKinesisAnalyticsReadOnly

**Description**: Provides read-only access to Amazon Kinesis Analytics via the AWS Management Console.

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

## Policy details

+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: September 21, 2016, 18:16 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** September 21, 2016, 18:16 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKinesisAnalyticsReadOnly`

## Policy version


**Policy version:** v1 (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" : [
        "kinesisanalytics:Describe*",
        "kinesisanalytics:Get*",
        "kinesisanalytics:List*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kinesis:DescribeStream",
        "kinesis:ListStreams"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "firehose:DescribeDeliveryStream",
        "firehose:ListDeliveryStreams"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "logs:GetLogEvents",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:ListPolicyVersions",
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "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)