Amazon managed policies for Amazon GuardDuty

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 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.

The Version policy element specifies the language syntax rules that are to be used to process a policy. The following policies include the current version that IAM supports. For more information, see IAM JSON policy elements: Version.

Amazon managed policy: AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2 (recommended)

You can attach the AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2 policy to your IAM identities. Between AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2 and AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess, GuardDuty recommends attaching AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2 because it offers enhanced security and restricts administrative actions to GuardDuty service principals. This policy will still allow a user full access to perform all GuardDuty actions and access required resources.

Permission details

The AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2 policy includes the following permissions:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [{
            "Sid": "GuardDutyFullAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "guardduty:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CreateGuardDutyServiceLinkedRole",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": [
                        "guardduty.amazonaws.com",
                        "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "GuardDutyOrganizationsReadOnly",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
                "organizations:DescribeAccount",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAccounts"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "GuardDutyOrganizationsAdminAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
                "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess",
                "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
                "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator",
                "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
                        "guardduty.amazonaws.com",
                        "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "GuardDutyIamRoleAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:GetRole",
            "Resource": "arn:aws-cn:iam::*:role/*AWSServiceRoleForAmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtection"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "PassRoleToMalwareProtectionPlan",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:PassRole",
            "Resource": "arn:aws-cn:iam::*:role/*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:PassedToService": "malware-protection-plan.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess

You can attach the AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess policy to your IAM identities.

This policy grants administrative permissions that allow a user full access to perform all GuardDuty actions and resources.

Permission details

This policy includes the following permissions.

The permission to perform an iam:GetRole action on AWSServiceRoleForAmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtection establishes if the service-linked role (SLR) for Malware Protection for EC2 exists in an account.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [{
            "Sid": "AmazonGuardDutyFullAccessSid1",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "guardduty:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CreateServiceLinkedRoleSid1",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": [
                        "guardduty.amazonaws.com",
                        "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "ActionsForOrganizationsSid1",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
                "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
                "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
                "organizations:DescribeAccount",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAccounts"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "IamGetRoleSid1",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:GetRole",
            "Resource": "arn:aws-cn:iam::*:role/*AWSServiceRoleForAmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtection"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowPassRoleToMalwareProtectionPlan",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:PassRole"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws-cn:iam::*:role/*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:PassedToService": "malware-protection-plan.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities.

This policy grants read-only permissions that allow a user to view GuardDuty findings and details of your GuardDuty organization.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "guardduty:Describe*",
                "guardduty:Get*",
                "guardduty:List*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
                "organizations:DescribeAccount",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAccounts"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Amazon managed policy: AmazonGuardDutyServiceRolePolicy

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

GuardDuty updates to Amazon managed policies

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

{
            "Sid": "AllowPassRoleToMalwareProtectionPlan",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:PassRole"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:PassedToService": "guardduty.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
}

{
    "Effect": "Allow",
	"Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
	"Resource": "*",
	"Condition": {
	   "StringEquals": {
	       "iam:AWSServiceName": "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
	   }
	}
}