IAM policy to grant read-only permissions on items in a DynamoDB table - Amazon DynamoDB
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IAM policy to grant read-only permissions on items in a DynamoDB table

The following permissions policy grants permissions for the GetItem, BatchGetItem, Scan, Query, and ConditionCheckItem DynamoDB actions only, and as a result, sets read-only access on the Books table.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ReadOnlyAPIActionsOnBooks",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "dynamodb:GetItem",
                "dynamodb:BatchGetItem",
                "dynamodb:Scan",
                "dynamodb:Query",
                "dynamodb:ConditionCheckItem"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-west-2:123456789012:table/Books"
        }
    ]
}