# CloudWatchEventsReadOnlyAccess
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**Description**: Provides read only access to Amazon CloudWatch Events.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: January 14, 2016, 18:27 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** December 01, 2022, 16:29 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchEventsReadOnlyAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v3 (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" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "events:DescribeRule",
        "events:DescribeEventBus",
        "events:DescribeEventSource",
        "events:ListEventBuses",
        "events:ListEventSources",
        "events:ListRuleNamesByTarget",
        "events:ListRules",
        "events:ListTargetsByRule",
        "events:TestEventPattern",
        "events:DescribeArchive",
        "events:ListArchives",
        "events:DescribeReplay",
        "events:ListReplays",
        "events:DescribeConnection",
        "events:ListConnections",
        "events:DescribeApiDestination",
        "events:ListApiDestinations",
        "events:DescribeEndpoint",
        "events:ListEndpoints",
        "schemas:DescribeCodeBinding",
        "schemas:DescribeDiscoverer",
        "schemas:DescribeRegistry",
        "schemas:DescribeSchema",
        "schemas:ExportSchema",
        "schemas:GetCodeBindingSource",
        "schemas:GetDiscoveredSchema",
        "schemas:GetResourcePolicy",
        "schemas:ListDiscoverers",
        "schemas:ListRegistries",
        "schemas:ListSchemas",
        "schemas:ListSchemaVersions",
        "schemas:ListTagsForResource",
        "schemas:SearchSchemas",
        "scheduler:GetSchedule",
        "scheduler:GetScheduleGroup",
        "scheduler:ListSchedules",
        "scheduler:ListScheduleGroups",
        "scheduler:ListTagsForResource",
        "pipes:DescribePipe",
        "pipes:ListPipes",
        "pipes:ListTagsForResource"
      ],
      "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)