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Basic Amazon IoT Core policy variables

Amazon IoT Core defines the following basic policy variables:

Examples of ClientId and SourceIp policy variables

The following Amazon IoT Core policy shows a policy that uses policy variables. aws:SourceIp can be used in the Condition element of your policy to allow principals to make API requests only within a specific address range. For examples, see Authorizing users and cloud services to use Amazon IoT Jobs.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"iot:Connect"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:123456789012:client/clientid1"
			]
		},
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"iot:Publish"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:123456789012:topic/my/topic/${iot:ClientId}"
			],
			"Condition": {
				"IpAddress": {
					"aws:SourceIp": "123.45.167.89"
				}
			}
		}
	]
}

In these examples, ${iot:ClientId} is replaced by the ID of the client connected to the Amazon IoT Core message broker when the policy is evaluated. When you use policy variables like ${iot:ClientId}, you can inadvertently open access to unintended topics. For example, if you use a policy that uses ${iot:ClientId} to specify a topic filter:

{
	"Effect": "Allow",
	"Action": [
		"iot:Subscribe"
	],
	"Resource": [
		"arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:123456789012:topicfilter/my/${iot:ClientId}/topic"
	]
}

A client can connect using + as the client ID. This would allow the user to subscribe to any topic that matches the topic filter my/+/topic. To protect against such security gaps, use the iot:Connect policy action to control which client IDs can connect. For example, this policy allows only those clients whose client ID is clientid1 to connect:

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"iot:Connect"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:123456789012:client/clientid"
			]
		}
	]
}

Examples of iot:DomainName policy variable

You can add the iot:DomainName policy variable to restrict which domains are allowed to use. Adding the iot:DomainName policy variable allows devices to connect to only specific configured endpoints.

The following policy allows devices to connect to the specified domain.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": {
		"Sid": "AllowConnectionsToSpecifiedDomain",
		"Effect": "Allow",
		"Action": [
			"iot:Connect"
		],
		"Resource": "arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:123456789012:client/clientid",
		"Condition": {
			"StringEquals": {
				"iot:DomainName": "d1234567890abcdefghij-ats.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com"
			}
		}
	}
}

The following policy denies devices to connect to the specified domain.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": {
		"Sid": "DenyConnectionsToSpecifiedDomain",
		"Effect": "Deny",
		"Action": [
			"iot:Connect"
		],
		"Resource": "arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:123456789012:client/clientid",
		"Condition": {
			"StringEquals": {
				"iot:DomainName": "d1234567890abcdefghij-ats.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com"
			}
		}
	}
}

For more information about policy conditional operator, see IAM JSON policy elements: Condition operators. For more information about domain configurations, see What is a domain configuration?.