# CloudWatchFullAccess
CloudWatchFullAccess

**Description**: Provides full access to CloudWatch.

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

## Policy details

+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: February 06, 2015, 18:40 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** November 27, 2022, 13:23 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchFullAccess`

## Policy version


**Policy version:** v4 (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" : [
        "autoscaling:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:*",
        "logs:*",
        "sns:*",
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "oam:ListSinks"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/events.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchEvents*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "events.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "oam:ListAttachedLinks"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:oam:*:*:sink/*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)