Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Tagging customer managed policies

You can use IAM tag key-value pairs to add custom attributes to your customer managed policies. For example, to tag a policy with department information, you can add the tag key Department and the tag value eng. Or, you might want to tag policies to indicate that they are for a specific environment, such as Environment = lab. You can use tags to control access to resources or to control what tags can be attached to a resource. To learn more about using tags to control access, see Controlling access to and for IAM users and roles using tags.

You can also use tags in Amazon STS to add custom attributes when you assume a role or federate a user. For more information, see Passing session tags in Amazon STS.

Permissions required for tagging customer managed policies

You must configure permissions to allow an IAM entity (users or roles) to tag customer managed policies. You can specify one or all of the following IAM tag actions in an IAM policy:

To allow an IAM entity (user or role) to add, list, or remove a tag for a customer managed policy

Add the following statement to the permissions policy for the IAM entity that needs to manage tags. Use your account number and replace <policyname> with the name of the policy whose tags need to be managed. To learn how to create a policy using this example JSON policy document, see Creating policies on the JSON tab.

{
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
        "iam:ListPolicyTags",
        "iam:TagPolicy",
        "iam:UntagPolicy"
    ],
    "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::<account-number>:policy/<policyname>"
}

To allow an IAM entity (user or role) to add a tag to a specific customer managed policy

Add the following statement to the permissions policy for the IAM entity that needs to add, but not remove, tags for a specific policy.

To use this policy, replace <policyname> with the name of the policy whose tags need to be managed. To learn how to create a policy using this example JSON policy document, see Creating policies on the JSON tab.

{
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
        "iam:ListPolicyTags",
        "iam:TagPolicy"
    ],
    "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::<account-number>:policy/<policyname>"
}

Alternatively, you can use an Amazon managed policy such as IAMFullAccess to provide full access to IAM.

Managing tags on IAM customer managed policies (console)

You can manage tags for IAM customer managed policies from the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

Managing tags on IAM customer managed policies (Amazon CLI or Amazon API)

You can list, attach, or remove tags for IAM customer managed policies. You can use the Amazon CLI or the Amazon API to manage tags for IAM customer managed policies.

For information about attaching tags to resources for other Amazon services, see the documentation for those services.

For information about using tags to set more granular permissions with IAM permissions policies, see IAM policy elements: Variables and tags.