Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon SQS - Service Authorization Reference
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Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS (service prefix: sqs) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

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Actions defined by Amazon SQS

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in Amazon. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions Description Access level Resource types (*required) Condition keys Dependent actions
AddPermission Grants permission to a queue for a specific principal Permissions management

queue*

CancelMessageMoveTask Grants permission to cancel an in progress message move task Write

queue*

ChangeMessageVisibility Grants permission to change the visibility timeout of a specified message in a queue to a new value Write

queue*

CreateQueue Grants permission to create a new queue, or returns the URL of an existing one Write

queue*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

DeleteMessage Grants permission to delete the specified message from the specified queue Write

queue*

DeleteQueue Grants permission to delete the queue specified by the queue URL, regardless of whether the queue is empty Write

queue*

GetQueueAttributes Grants permission to get attributes for the specified queue Read

queue*

GetQueueUrl Grants permission to return the URL of an existing queue Read

queue*

ListDeadLetterSourceQueues Grants permission to return a list of your queues that have the RedrivePolicy queue attribute configured with a dead letter queue Read

queue*

ListMessageMoveTasks Grants permission to list message move tasks Read

queue*

ListQueueTags Grants permission to list tags added to an SQS queue Read

queue*

ListQueues Grants permission to return a list of your queues Read
PurgeQueue Grants permission to delete the messages in a queue specified by the queue URL Write

queue*

ReceiveMessage Grants permission to retrieve one or more messages, with a maximum limit of 10 messages, from the specified queue Read

queue*

RemovePermission Grants permission to revoke any permissions in the queue policy that matches the specified Label parameter Permissions management

queue*

SendMessage Grants permission to deliver a message to the specified queue Write

queue*

SetQueueAttributes Grants permission to set the value of one or more queue attributes Write

queue*

StartMessageMoveTask Grants permission to start a message move task Write

queue*

TagQueue Grants permission to add tags to the specified SQS queue Tagging

queue*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

UntagQueue Grants permission to remove tags from the specified SQS queue Tagging

queue*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Resource types defined by Amazon SQS

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Note

The ARN of the queue is used only in IAM permission policies. In API and CLI calls, you use the queue's URL instead.

Resource types ARN Condition keys
queue arn:${Partition}:sqs:${Region}:${Account}:${QueueName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys Description Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} Filters access by the tags that are passed in the request String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} Filters access by the tags associated with the resource String
aws:TagKeys Filters access by the tag keys that are passed in the request ArrayOfString