AWS managed policies for the AWS Management Console

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. AWS managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.

Keep in mind that AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all AWS customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.

You cannot change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. If AWS updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. AWS is most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new AWS service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess

You can attach AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess to your users, groups, and roles.

This policy grants the permissions necessary for non-administrative users of the AWS Management Console. This includes features such as resource discovery, notifications, browser-based shell access, and customized navigation.

Permissions details

This AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess is grouped into the following sets of permissions:

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSManagementConsoleAdministratorAccess

You can attach AWSManagementConsoleAdministratorAccess to your users, groups, and roles.

This policy grants full access to configure and customize the AWS Management Console. It allows administrators to set account colors, enable user notifications, and configure resource discovery. It also includes permissions from the AWSManagementConsoleBasicUserAccess managed policy, which are essential for non-administrative users of the AWS Management Console.

Permissions details

This AWSManagementConsoleAdministratorAccess is grouped into the following sets of permissions:

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSManagementConsoleAdministratorAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS Management Console updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for the AWS Management Console since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the AWS Management Console Document history page.