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).

Amazon managed policies for Amazon AppSync

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 that 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.

Amazon managed policy: AWSAppSyncInvokeFullAccess

Use the AWSAppSyncInvokeFullAccess Amazon managed policy to allow your administrators to access the Amazon AppSync service through the console or independently.

You can attach the AWSAppSyncInvokeFullAccess policy to your IAM identities.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "appsync:GraphQL",
                "appsync:GetGraphqlApi",
                "appsync:ListGraphqlApis",
                "appsync:ListApiKeys"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AWSAppSyncSchemaAuthor

Use the AWSAppSyncSchemaAuthor Amazon managed policy to allow IAM users to access to create, update, and query their GraphQL schemas. For information about what users can do with these permissions, see Designing GraphQL APIs.

You can attach the AWSAppSyncSchemaAuthor policy to your IAM identities.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "appsync:GraphQL",
                "appsync:CreateResolver",
                "appsync:CreateType",
                "appsync:DeleteResolver",
                "appsync:DeleteType",
                "appsync:GetResolver",
                "appsync:GetType",
                "appsync:GetDataSource",
                "appsync:GetSchemaCreationStatus",
                "appsync:GetIntrospectionSchema",
                "appsync:GetGraphqlApi",
                "appsync:ListTypes",
                "appsync:ListApiKeys",
                "appsync:ListResolvers",
                "appsync:ListDataSources",
                "appsync:ListGraphqlApis",
                "appsync:StartSchemaCreation",
                "appsync:UpdateResolver",
                "appsync:UpdateType",
                "appsync:TagResource",
                "appsync:UntagResource",
                "appsync:ListTagsForResource",
                "appsync:CreateFunction",
                "appsync:UpdateFunction",
                "appsync:GetFunction",
                "appsync:DeleteFunction",
                "appsync:ListFunctions",
                "appsync:ListResolversByFunction",
                "appsync:EvaluateMappingTemplate",
                "appsync:EvaluateCode"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AWSAppSyncPushToCloudWatchLogs

Amazon AppSync uses Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the performance of your application by generating logs that you can use to troubleshoot and optimize your GraphQL requests. For more information, see Monitoring and logging.

Use the AWSAppSyncPushToCloudWatchLogs Amazon managed policy to allow Amazon AppSync to push logs to an IAM user's CloudWatch account.

You can attach the AWSAppSyncPushToCloudWatchLogs policy to your IAM identities.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "logs:CreateLogGroup",
                "logs:CreateLogStream",
                "logs:PutLogEvents"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AWSAppSyncAdministrator

Use the AWSAppSyncAdministrator Amazon managed policy to allow your administrators to access all of Amazon AppSync except for the Amazon console.

You can attach AWSAppSyncAdministrator to your IAM entities. Amazon AppSync also attaches this policy to a service role that allows it to perform actions on your behalf.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "appsync:*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:PassRole"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:PassedToService": [
                        "appsync.amazonaws.com"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": "appsync.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
                "iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/appsync.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAppSync*"
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AWSAppSyncServiceRolePolicy

Use the AWSAppSyncServiceRolePolicy Amazon managed policy to allow access to Amazon services and resources that Amazon AppSync uses or manages.

You can't attach AWSAppSyncServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows Amazon AppSync to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked roles for Amazon AppSync.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "xray:PutTraceSegments",
                "xray:PutTelemetryRecords",
                "xray:GetSamplingTargets",
                "xray:GetSamplingRules",
                "xray:GetSamplingStatisticSummaries"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Amazon AppSync updates to Amazon managed policies

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