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Amazon Web Services managed policies for Amazon Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor has the following Amazon Web Services managed policies.

Amazon managed policy: AWSTrustedAdvisorPriorityFullAccess

The AWSTrustedAdvisorPriorityFullAccess policy grants full access to Trusted Advisor Priority. This policy also allows the user to add Trusted Advisor as a trusted service with Amazon Organizations and to specify the delegated administrator accounts for Trusted Advisor Priority.

Permissions details

In the first statement, the policy includes the following permissions for trustedadvisor:

In the second statement, the policy includes the following permissions for organizations:

In the third statement, the policy includes the following permissions for organizations:

In the fourth statement, the policy includes the following permissions for iam:

In the fifth statement, the policy includes the following permissions for organizations:

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Sid": "AWSTrustedAdvisorPriorityFullAccess",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeAccount*",
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeOrganization",
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeRisk*",
				"trustedadvisor:DownloadRisk",
				"trustedadvisor:UpdateRiskStatus",
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeNotificationConfigurations",
				"trustedadvisor:UpdateNotificationConfigurations",
				"trustedadvisor:DeleteNotificationConfigurationForDelegatedAdmin",
				"trustedadvisor:SetOrganizationAccess"
			],
			"Resource": "*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "AllowAccessForOrganization",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"organizations:DescribeAccount",
				"organizations:DescribeOrganization",
				"organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization"
			],
			"Resource": "*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "AllowListDelegatedAdministrators",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
				"organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
				"organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess"
			],
			"Resource": "*",
			"Condition": {
				"StringEquals": {
					"organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
						"reporting.trustedadvisor.amazonaws.com"
					]
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "AllowCreateServiceLinkedRole",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
			"Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/reporting.trustedadvisor.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForTrustedAdvisorReporting",
			"Condition": {
				"StringLike": {
					"iam:AWSServiceName": "reporting.trustedadvisor.amazonaws.com"
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "AllowRegisterDelegatedAdministrators",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
				"organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:organizations::*:*",
			"Condition": {
				"StringEquals": {
					"organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
						"reporting.trustedadvisor.amazonaws.com"
					]
				}
			}
		}
	]
}

Amazon managed policy: AWSTrustedAdvisorPriorityReadOnlyAccess

The AWSTrustedAdvisorPriorityReadOnlyAccess policy grants read-only permissions to Trusted Advisor Priority, including permission to view the delegated administrator accounts.

Permissions details

In the first statement, the policy includes the following permissions for trustedadvisor:

In the second and third statement, the policy includes the following permissions for organizations:

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Sid": "AWSTrustedAdvisorPriorityReadOnlyAccess",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeAccount*",
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeOrganization",
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeRisk*",
				"trustedadvisor:DownloadRisk",
				"trustedadvisor:DescribeNotificationConfigurations"
			],
			"Resource": "*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "AllowAccessForOrganization",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"organizations:DescribeOrganization",
				"organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization"
			],
			"Resource": "*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "AllowListDelegatedAdministrators",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
			],
			"Resource": "*",
			"Condition": {
				"StringEquals": {
					"organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
						"reporting.trustedadvisor.amazonaws.com"
					]
				}
			}
		}
	]
}

Amazon managed policy: AWSTrustedAdvisorServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the AWSServiceRoleForTrustedAdvisor service-linked role. It allows the service-linked role to perform actions for you. You can't attach the AWSTrustedAdvisorServiceRolePolicy to your Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) entities. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Trusted Advisor.

This policy grants administrative permissions that allow the service-linked role to access Amazon Web Services services. These permissions allow the checks for Trusted Advisor to evaluate your account.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid" : "TrustedAdvisorServiceRolePermissions",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "access-analyzer:ListAnalyzers"
                "autoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits",
                "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
                "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
                "ce:GetReservationPurchaseRecommendation",
                "ce:GetSavingsPlansPurchaseRecommendation",
                "cloudformation:DescribeAccountLimits",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
                "cloudformation:ListStacks",
                "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
                "cloudtrail:DescribeTrails",
                "cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus",
                "cloudtrail:GetTrail",
                "cloudtrail:ListTrails",
                "cloudtrail:GetEventSelectors",
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
                "dax:DescribeClusters",
                "dynamodb:DescribeLimits",
                "dynamodb:DescribeTable",
                "dynamodb:ListTables",
                "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
                "ec2:DescribeReservedInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
                "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeImages",
                "ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeRegions",
                "ec2:DescribeReservedInstancesOfferings",
                "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
                "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
                "ec2:DescribeVpnConnections",
                "ec2:DescribeVpnGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
                "ec2:GetManagedPrefixListEntries",
                "ecs:DescribeTaskDefinition",
                "ecs:ListTaskDefinitions"
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeAccountLimits",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerPolicies",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerPolicyTypes",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
                "iam:GenerateCredentialReport",
                "iam:GetAccountPasswordPolicy",
                "iam:GetAccountSummary",
                "iam:GetCredentialReport",
                "iam:GetServerCertificate",
                "iam:ListServerCertificates",
                "iam:ListSAMLProviders",
                "kinesis:DescribeLimits",
                "kafka:DescribeClusterV2",
                "kafka:ListClustersV2",
                "kafka:ListNodes",
                "network-firewall:ListFirewalls",
                "network-firewall:DescribeFirewall",
                "outposts:GetOutpost",
                "outposts:ListAssets",
                "outposts:ListOutposts",
                "rds:DescribeAccountAttributes",
                "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
                "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions",
                "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
                "rds:DescribeDBParameterGroups",
                "rds:DescribeDBParameters",
                "rds:DescribeDBSecurityGroups",
                "rds:DescribeDBSnapshots",
                "rds:DescribeDBSubnetGroups",
                "rds:DescribeEngineDefaultParameters",
                "rds:DescribeEvents",
                "rds:DescribeOptionGroupOptions",
                "rds:DescribeOptionGroups",
                "rds:DescribeOrderableDBInstanceOptions",
                "rds:DescribeReservedDBInstances",
                "rds:DescribeReservedDBInstancesOfferings",
                "rds:ListTagsForResource",
                "redshift:DescribeClusters",
                "redshift:DescribeReservedNodeOfferings",
                "redshift:DescribeReservedNodes",
                "route53:GetAccountLimit",
                "route53:GetHealthCheck",
                "route53:GetHostedZone",
                "route53:ListHealthChecks",
                "route53:ListHostedZones",
                "route53:ListHostedZonesByName",
                "route53:ListResourceRecordSets",
                "route53resolver:ListResolverEndpoints",
                "route53resolver:ListResolverEndpointIpAddresses",
                "s3:GetAccountPublicAccessBlock",
                "s3:GetBucketAcl",
                "s3:GetBucketPolicy",
                "s3:GetBucketPolicyStatus",
                "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                "s3:GetBucketLogging",
                "s3:GetBucketVersioning",
                "s3:GetBucketPublicAccessBlock",
                "s3:GetLifecycleConfiguration",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
                "ses:GetSendQuota",
                "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
                "sqs:ListQueues"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AWSTrustedAdvisorReportingServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the AWSServiceRoleForTrustedAdvisorReporting service-linked role that allows Trusted Advisor to perform actions for the organizational view feature. You can't attach the AWSTrustedAdvisorReportingServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Trusted Advisor.

This policy grants administrative permissions that allow the service-linked role to perform Amazon Organizations actions.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
                "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
                "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
                "organizations:ListChildren",
                "organizations:ListParents",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
                "organizations:DescribeAccount"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Trusted Advisor updates to Amazon managed policies

View details about updates to Amazon managed policies for Amazon Web Services Support and Trusted Advisor since these services began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the Document history page.

The following table describes important updates to the Trusted Advisor managed policies since August 10, 2021.