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Amazon managed policies for Amazon Compute Optimizer

To add permissions to users, groups, and roles, consider using Amazon managed policies rather than to writing your own policies. 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 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 Web Services 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 don't remove permissions from an Amazon managed policy, so policy updates won't break your existing permissions.

Additionally, Amazon Web Services supports managed policies for job functions that span multiple services. For example, the ReadOnlyAccess Amazon managed policy provides read-only access to all 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: ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy

The ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy managed policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows Compute Optimizer to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Amazon Compute Optimizer.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ComputeOptimizerFullAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "compute-optimizer:*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AwsOrgsAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CloudWatchAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities.

This policy grants read-only permissions that allow IAM users to view Compute Optimizer resource recommendations.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "compute-optimizer:DescribeRecommendationExportJobs",
                "compute-optimizer:GetEnrollmentStatus",
                "compute-optimizer:GetEnrollmentStatusesForOrganization",
                "compute-optimizer:GetRecommendationSummaries",
                "compute-optimizer:GetEC2InstanceRecommendations",
                "compute-optimizer:GetEC2RecommendationProjectedMetrics",
                "compute-optimizer:GetAutoScalingGroupRecommendations",
                "compute-optimizer:GetEBSVolumeRecommendations",
                "compute-optimizer:GetLambdaFunctionRecommendations",
                "compute-optimizer:GetECSServiceRecommendations",
		"compute-optimizer:GetECSServiceRecommendationProjectedMetrics",
				"compute-optimizer:GetLicenseRecommendations",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
                "ecs:ListServices",
		"ecs:ListClusters",
                "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
                "lambda:ListFunctions",
                "lambda:ListProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs",
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:DescribeAccount"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Compute Optimizer updates to Amazon managed policies

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