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Amazon managed policies for Amazon Account Management

An Amazon managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by Amazon. Amazon 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 Amazon managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all Amazon 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 Amazon managed policies. If Amazon updates the permissions defined in an Amazon managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. Amazon is most likely to update an Amazon managed policy when a new Amazon Web Service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see Amazon managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

Amazon managed policy: AWSAccountManagementReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the AWSAccountManagementReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities.

This policy provides read-only permissions to only view the following:

It does this by granting permission to run any of the Get* or List* operations. It doesn't provide any ability to modify the account metadata or enable or disable Amazon Web Services Regions for the account.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

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

Amazon managed policy: AWSAccountManagementFullAccess

You can attach the AWSAccountManagementFullAccess policy to your IAM identities.

This policy provides full administrative access to view or modify the following:

It does this by granting permission to run any account operations.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "account:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Account Management updates to Amazon managed policies

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