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Amazon managed policies for Amazon Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer

To add permissions to users, groups, and roles, it is easier to use Amazon managed policies than to write policies yourself. It takes time and expertise to create IAM customer managed policies that provide your team with only the permissions they need. To get started quickly, you can use our Amazon managed policies. These policies cover common use cases and are available in your Amazon Web Services account. For more information about Amazon managed policies, see Amazon managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

Amazon services maintain and update Amazon managed policies. You can't change the permissions in Amazon managed policies. Services occasionally add additional permissions to an Amazon managed policy to support new features. This type of update affects all identities (users, groups, and roles) where the policy is attached. Services are most likely to update an Amazon managed policy when a new feature is launched or when new operations become available. Services do not remove permissions from an Amazon managed policy, so policy updates won't break your existing permissions.

Additionally, Amazon supports managed policies for job functions that span multiple services. For example, the ReadOnlyAccess Amazon managed policy provides read-only access to all Amazon services and resources. When a service launches a new feature, Amazon adds read-only permissions for new operations and resources. For a list and descriptions of job function policies, see Amazon managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.

IAMReadOnlyAccess

Use the IAMReadOnlyAccess managed policy to allow read only access to IAM resources. This policy grants permission to get and list all IAM resources. It allows viewing details and activity reports for users, groups, roles, policies, identity providers, and MFA devices. It does not include the ability to create or delete resources or access to IAM Access Analyzer resources. View the policy for the full list of services and actions supported by this policy.

IAMUserChangePassword

Use the IAMUserChangePassword managed policy to allow IAM users to change their password.

You configure your IAM Account settings and the Password policy to allow IAM users to change their IAM account password. When you allow this action, IAM attaches the following policy to each user:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:ChangePassword"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:iam::*:user/${aws:username}"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:GetAccountPasswordPolicy"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

IAMAccessAnalyzerFullAccess

Use the IAMAccessAnalyzerFullAccess Amazon managed policy to allow your administrators to access IAM Access Analyzer.

Permissions groupings

This policy is grouped into statements based on the set of permissions provided.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "access-analyzer:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "access-analyzer.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListChildren",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListParents",
        "organizations:ListRoots"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

IAMAccessAnalyzerReadOnlyAccess

Use the IAMAccessAnalyzerReadOnlyAccess Amazon managed policy to allow read-only access to IAM Access Analyzer.

To also allow read-only access to IAM Access Analyzer for Amazon Organizations, create a customer managed policy that allows the Describe and List actions from the IAMAccessAnalyzerFullAccess Amazon managed policy.

Service-level permissions

This policy provides read-only access to IAM Access Analyzer. No other service permissions are included in this policy.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "access-analyzer:Get*",
        "access-analyzer:List*",
        "access-analyzer:ValidatePolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

AccessAnalyzerServiceRolePolicy

You can't attach AccessAnalyzerServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows IAM Access Analyzer to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Amazon Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer.

Permissions groupings

This policy allows access to IAM Access Analyzer to analyze resource metadata from multiple Amazon Web Services.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeByoipCidrs",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshotAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ecr:DescribeRepositories",
        "ecr:GetRepositoryPolicy",
        "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystemPolicy",
        "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:GetKeyPolicy",
        "kms:ListGrants",
        "kms:ListKeyPolicies",
        "kms:ListKeys",
        "lambda:GetFunctionUrlConfig",
        "lambda:GetLayerVersionPolicy",
        "lambda:GetPolicy",
        "lambda:ListAliases",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "lambda:ListLayers",
        "lambda:ListLayerVersions",
        "lambda:ListVersionsByFunction",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListChildren",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListParents",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusterSnapshotAttributes",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusterSnapshots",
        "rds:DescribeDBSnapshotAttributes",
        "rds:DescribeDBSnapshots",
        "s3:DescribeMultiRegionAccessPointOperation",
        "s3:GetAccessPoint",
        "s3:GetAccessPointPolicy",
        "s3:GetAccessPointPolicyStatus",
        "s3:GetAccountPublicAccessBlock",
        "s3:GetBucketAcl",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetBucketPolicyStatus",
        "s3:GetBucketPolicy",
        "s3:GetBucketPublicAccessBlock",
        "s3:GetMultiRegionAccessPoint",
        "s3:GetMultiRegionAccessPointPolicy",
        "s3:GetMultiRegionAccessPointPolicyStatus",
        "s3:ListAccessPoints",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:ListMultiRegionAccessPoints",
        "sns:GetTopicAttributes",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "secretsmanager:DescribeSecret",
        "secretsmanager:GetResourcePolicy",
        "secretsmanager:ListSecrets",
        "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
        "sqs:ListQueues"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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