# CloudWatchEventsFullAccess
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**Description**: Provides full access to Amazon CloudWatch Events.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: January 14, 2016, 18:37 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:00 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchEventsFullAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v5 (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" : "EventBridgeActions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "events:*",
        "schemas:*",
        "scheduler:*",
        "pipes:*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "IAMCreateServiceLinkedRoleForApiDestinations",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/apidestinations.events.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEventBridgeApiDestinations",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "apidestinations.events.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "IAMCreateServiceLinkedRoleForAmazonEventBridgeSchemas",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/schemas.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForSchemas",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "schemas.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "SecretsManagerAccessForApiDestinations",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "secretsmanager:CreateSecret",
        "secretsmanager:UpdateSecret",
        "secretsmanager:DeleteSecret",
        "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue",
        "secretsmanager:PutSecretValue"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:events!*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "IAMPassRoleForCloudWatchEvents",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS_Events_Invoke_Targets"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "IAMPassRoleAccessForScheduler",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "scheduler.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "IAMPassRoleAccessForPipes",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "pipes.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)