# AmazonWorkSpacesAdmin
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**Description**: Provides access to Amazon WorkSpaces administrative actions via AWS SDK and CLI.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: September 22, 2015, 22:21 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** June 27, 2024, 17:16 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonWorkSpacesAdmin`

## 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" : "AmazonWorkSpacesAdmin",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:ListAliases",
        "kms:ListKeys",
        "workspaces:CreateTags",
        "workspaces:CreateWorkspaceImage",
        "workspaces:CreateWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:CreateWorkspacesPool",
        "workspaces:CreateStandbyWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:DeleteTags",
        "workspaces:DeregisterWorkspaceDirectory",
        "workspaces:DescribeTags",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaceBundles",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaceDirectories",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspacesPools",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspacesPoolSessions",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspacesConnectionStatus",
        "workspaces:ModifyCertificateBasedAuthProperties",
        "workspaces:ModifySamlProperties",
        "workspaces:ModifyStreamingProperties",
        "workspaces:ModifyWorkspaceCreationProperties",
        "workspaces:ModifyWorkspaceProperties",
        "workspaces:RebootWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:RebuildWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:RegisterWorkspaceDirectory",
        "workspaces:RestoreWorkspace",
        "workspaces:StartWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:StartWorkspacesPool",
        "workspaces:StopWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:StopWorkspacesPool",
        "workspaces:TerminateWorkspaces",
        "workspaces:TerminateWorkspacesPool",
        "workspaces:TerminateWorkspacesPoolSession",
        "workspaces:UpdateWorkspacesPool"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)