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 Direct Connect

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 Services 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: AWSDirectConnectFullAccess

You can attach the AWSDirectConnectFullAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow full access to Amazon Direct Connect.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSDirectConnectFullAccess in the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

Amazon managed policy: AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow read-only access to Amazon Direct Connect.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess in the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

Amazon managed policy: AWSDirectConnectServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForDirectConnect to allow Amazon Direct Connect to retrieve MAC Security secrets on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked roles for Amazon Direct Connect.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSDirectConnectServiceRolePolicy in the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

Amazon Direct Connect updates to Amazon managed policies

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