AWS managed policies for AWS Direct Connect

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: AWSDirectConnectFullAccess

You can attach the AWSDirectConnectFullAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow full access to Direct Connect.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSDirectConnectFullAccess in the AWS Management Console.

AWS managed policy: AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow read-only access to Direct Connect.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess in the AWS Management Console.

AWS managed policy: AWSDirectConnectServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForDirectConnect to allow Direct Connect to retrieve MAC Security secrets on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked roles for Direct Connect.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSDirectConnectServiceRolePolicy in the AWS Management Console.

Direct Connect updates to AWS managed policies

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