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 Health

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 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 Health has the following managed policies.

Amazon managed policy: AWSHealth_EventProcessorServiceRolePolicy

Amazon Health uses the AWSHealth_EventProcessorServiceRolePolicy Amazon managed policy. This managed policy is attached to the AWSServiceRoleForHealth_EventProcessor service-linked role. The policy allows the service-linked role to complete actions for you. You can't attach this policy to your IAM entities. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Amazon Health.

The managed policy has the following permissions to allow Amazon Health to access the Amazon EventBridge rule for Amazon Incident Detection and Response.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {"events:ManagedBy": "event-processor.health.amazonaws.com"}
            },
            "Action": [
                "events:DeleteRule",
                "events:RemoveTargets",
                "events:PutTargets",
                "events:PutRule"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Effect": "Allow"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "events:ListTargetsByRule",
                "events:DescribeRule"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Effect": "Allow"
        }
    ]
}

For a list of changes to the policy, see Amazon Health updates to Amazon managed policies.

Amazon managed policy: Health_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicy

Amazon Health uses the Health_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicy Amazon managed policy. This managed policy is attached to the AWSServiceRoleForHealth_Organizations service-linked role. The policy allows the service-linked role to complete actions for you. You can't attach this policy to your IAM entities. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Amazon Health.

This policy grants permissions that allow Amazon Health to access required Amazon Organizations details for the Health Organizational view.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

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

For a list of changes to the policy, see Amazon Health updates to Amazon managed policies.

Amazon managed policy: AWSHealthFullAccess

Amazon Health uses the AWSHealthFullAccess Amazon managed policy. The policy grants entities (IAM users or roles) access to the Amazon Health console. For more information, see Using the Amazon Health console.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
            {
                "Sid": "OrganizationWriteAccess",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
                    "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess"
                ],
                "Resource": "*",
                "Condition": {
                    "StringEquals": {
                        "organizations:ServicePrincipal": "health.amazonaws.com"
                    }
                }
            },
            {
                "Sid": "HealthFullAccess",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "health:*",
                    "organizations:DescribeAccount",
                    "organizations:ListAccounts",
                    "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
                    "organizations:ListParents"
                ],
                "Resource": "*"
            },
            {
                "Sid": "ServiceLinkAccess",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
                "Resource": "*",
                "Condition": {
                    "StringEquals": {
                        "iam:AWSServiceName": "health.amazonaws.com"
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
}

For a list of changes to the policy, see Amazon Health updates to Amazon managed policies.

Amazon Health updates to Amazon managed policies

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

The following table describes important updates to the Amazon Health managed policies since January 13, 2022.