# AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsReadOnly
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**Description**: Read-Only policy for RDS Performance Insights

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: April 05, 2022, 00:02 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:02 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsReadOnly`

## 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" : "AmazonRDSDescribeDBInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:rds:*:*:db:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSDescribeDBClusters",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:rds:*:*:cluster:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSDescribeDBShardGroups",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "rds:DescribeDBShardGroups",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:rds:*:*:shard-group:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSListTagsForResource",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "rds:ListTagsForResource",
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:rds:*:*:db:*",
        "arn:aws:rds:*:*:shard-group:*",
        "arn:aws:rds:*:*:cluster:*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsDescribeDimensionKeys",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:DescribeDimensionKeys",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:metrics/rds/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsGetDimensionKeyDetails",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:GetDimensionKeyDetails",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:metrics/rds/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsGetResourceMetadata",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:GetResourceMetadata",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:metrics/rds/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsGetResourceMetrics",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:GetResourceMetrics",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:metrics/rds/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsListAvailableResourceDimensions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:ListAvailableResourceDimensions",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:metrics/rds/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsListAvailableResourceMetrics",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:ListAvailableResourceMetrics",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:metrics/rds/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsGetPerformanceAnalysisReport",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:GetPerformanceAnalysisReport",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:perf-reports/rds/*/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsListPerformanceAnalysisReports",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:ListPerformanceAnalysisReports",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:perf-reports/rds/*/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AmazonRDSPerformanceInsightsListTagsForResource",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "pi:ListTagsForResource",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:pi:*:*:*/rds/*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)