AWS managed policies for IAM Roles Anywhere

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: AWSRolesAnywhereServicePolicy

AWSRolesAnywhereServicePolicy provides the required permissions to publish metrics data to CloudWatch namespaces (AWS/RolesAnywhere and AWS/Usage). This policy also grants permissions to list information about your private certificate authority (CA) and retrieve the certificate and certificate chain for your private CA from AWS Private CA.

You can't attach AWSRolesAnywhereServicePolicy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows IAM Roles Anywhere to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked role permissions for IAM Roles Anywhere.

This policy grants administrative permissions that allow IAM Roles Anywhere to publish CloudWatch metrics and check the configuration of AWS Private CA.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

JSON

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
        ],
        "Resource": "*",
        "Condition": {
          "StringEquals": {
            "cloudwatch:namespace": [
              "AWS/RolesAnywhere",
              "AWS/Usage"
            ]
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate",
          "acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority"
        ],
        "Resource": "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:*"
      }
    ]
  }

JSON

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
        ],
        "Resource": "*",
        "Condition": {
          "StringEquals": {
            "cloudwatch:namespace": [
              "AWS/RolesAnywhere",
              "AWS/Usage"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }

For more information and definition of this policy, see: AWSRolesAnywhereServicePolicy.

AWS managed policy: AWSRolesAnywhereFullAccess

This policy provides all permissions to IAM Roles Anywhere resources, including but not limited to: CreateProfile, DeleteTrustAnchor, DisableCRL, ResetNotificationSettings.

You can attach the AWSRolesAnywhereFullAccess policy to your IAM identities.

This policy grants full access permissions that allow users to view, create, update, and delete all IAM Roles Anywhere resources.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions:

For more information and definition of this policy, see AWSRolesAnywhereFullAccess.

AWS managed policy: AWSRolesAnywhereReadOnly

This policy provides read-only permissions to IAM Roles Anywhere resources, including but not limited to: GetTrustAnchor, ListProfiles, GetCRL.

You can attach the AWSRolesAnywhereReadOnly policy to your IAM identities.

This policy grants read-only permissions that allow users to view IAM Roles Anywhere resources but not modify them.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions:

For more information and definition of this policy, see AWSRolesAnywhereReadOnly.

IAM Roles Anywhere updates to AWS managed policies

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