# Amazon Chime updates to AWS managed policies
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The following table lists and describes the updates made to the Amazon Chime SDK IAM policy.


| Change | Description | Date | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| [AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy](media-pipeline-service-linked-role-policy.md) – Updates to an existing policy | The `AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy` added permissions that allow Amazon Chime SDK meetings to publish metrics to CloudWatch for use in service dashboards. For more information, see [Using roles with Amazon Chime SDK media pipelines](using-service-linked-roles-media-pipeline.md). | December 8, 2023 | 
| [AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy](media-pipeline-service-linked-role-policy.md) – Updates to an existing policy | The `AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy` added permissions that allow Kinesis Video Streams to stream audio, video, and screen-share data to Amazon Chime SDK meetings. For more information, see [Using roles with Amazon Chime SDK media pipelines](using-service-linked-roles-media-pipeline.md). | August 20, 2023 | 
| [AmazonChimeVoiceConnectorServiceLinkedRolePolicy](cvc-linked-role-policy.md) – Update to an existing policy | The `AmazonChimeVoiceConnectorServiceLinkedRolePolicy` added permissions that allow access to the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_media-pipelines-chime_GetMediaInsightsPipelineConfiguration.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_media-pipelines-chime_GetMediaInsightsPipelineConfiguration.html) API. Amazon Chime Voice Connectors require those permissions in order to get media insights pipeline configurations. For more information, see [Configuring Voice Connectors to use call analytics](configure-voicecon.md). | April 14, 2023 | 
| New and updated service linked roles | Developers can use the AmazonChimeSDKEvents service linked role to access streaming services such as Kinesis Firehose. For more information, see [Using the AmazonChimeSDKEvents service-linked role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/ag/analytics-service-role.html). We also added the [AmazonChimeVoiceConnectorServiceLinkedRolePolicy](cvc-linked-role-policy.md) name to [Using service linked roles](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/dg/using-service-linked-roles.html). For more information, see [Using the AmazonChimeVoiceConnectorServiceLinkedRolePolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/dg/using-service-linked-roles-stream.html). | March 27, 2023 | 
| Amazon Chime SDK identity-based policy examples – Update to an existing policy. | The [AWS managed **Amazon Chime SDK** policy](security_iam_id-based-policy-examples-chime-sdk.md) added permissions that allow you to use [Amazon Chime SDK Media Pipeline](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/APIReference/API_Operations_Amazon_Chime_SDK_Media_Pipelines.html) APIs to create, read and delete media pipelines. | January 5, 2023 | 
| Added the [AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy](media-pipeline-service-linked-role-policy.md) – new managed policy. | The Amazon Chime SDK added a service-linked role that allows you to use media capture pipelines in Amazon Chime SDK meetings. | April 27, 2022 | 
| [AWS managed policy: AmazonChimeVoiceConnectorServiceLinkedRolePolicy](cvc-linked-role-policy.md) – Update to an existing policy. | Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connectors added permissions to allow you to use Amazon Polly to synthesize speech. These permissions are required to use the `Speak` and `SpeakAndGetDigits` actions in Amazon Chime SDK Voice Applications. | March 15, 2022 | 
| [AmazonChimeVoiceConnectorServiceLinkedRolePolicy](cvc-linked-role-policy.md) – Update to an existing policy | Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connector added permissions that allow access to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and send notification events to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) and Amazon Simple Query Service (Amazon SQS). These permissions are required for Amazon Chime SDK Voice Connectors to stream media to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and provide streaming notifications. | December 20, 2021 | 
| Change to existing policy. [Creating IAM users or roles with the Chime SDK policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime/latest/dg/iam-users-roles.html). | The Amazon Chime SDK added new actions to support expanded validation.<br />A number of actions were added to allow listing and tagging of attendees and meeting resources, and for starting and stopping meeting transcription. | September 23, 2021 | 
| The Amazon Chime SDK started tracking changes | The Amazon Chime SDK started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies. | September 23, 2021 |