CreateGrant
The following example shows an Amazon CloudTrail log entry for the CreateGrant operation. For information about creating grants in Amazon KMS, see Grants in Amazon KMS.
CloudTrail log entries for this operation recorded on or after December 2022 include the key ARN of the affected KMS key in the responseElements.keyId value, even though this operation does not return the key ARN.
The following example shows a CreateGrant log entry for a grant with an
encryption context constraint.
{ "eventVersion": "1.02", "userIdentity": { "type": "IAMUser", "principalId": "EX_PRINCIPAL_ID", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:user/Alice", "accountId": "111122223333", "accessKeyId": "EXAMPLE_KEY_ID", "userName": "Alice" }, "eventTime": "2014-11-04T00:53:12Z", "eventSource": "kms.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "CreateGrant", "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress": "192.0.2.0", "userAgent": "Amazon Internal", "requestParameters": { "keyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab", "constraints": { "encryptionContextSubset": { "ContextKey1": "Value1" } }, "operations": [ "Encrypt", "RetireGrant" ], "granteePrincipal": "service-name.amazonaws.com" }, "responseElements": { "grantId": "f020fe75197b93991dc8491d6f19dd3cebb24ee62277a05914386724f3d48758", "keyId":"arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab" }, "requestID": "f3c08808-63bc-11e4-bc2b-4198b6150d5c", "eventID": "5d529779-2d27-42b5-92da-91aaea1fc4b5", "readOnly": false, "resources": [{ "ARN": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab", "accountId": "111122223333" }], "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "111122223333" }
The following example shows a CreateGrant log entry for a service principal
grant. This grant uses the GranteeServicePrincipal parameter to specify an
Amazon service principal as the grantee, and includes a SourceArn grant
constraint.
{ "eventVersion": "1.08", "userIdentity": { "type": "IAMUser", "principalId": "EX_PRINCIPAL_ID", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:user/Alice", "accountId": "111122223333", "accessKeyId": "EXAMPLE_KEY_ID", "userName": "Alice" }, "eventTime": "2026-03-04T18:22:45Z", "eventSource": "kms.amazonaws.com", "eventName": "CreateGrant", "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "sourceIPAddress": "192.0.2.0", "userAgent": "Amazon Internal", "requestParameters": { "keyId": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab", "constraints": { "sourceArn": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-1:111122223333:table/ExampleTable" }, "operations": [ "Encrypt", "Decrypt", "GenerateDataKey" ], "granteeServicePrincipal": "service-name.amazonaws.com", "retiringServicePrincipal": "service-name.amazonaws.com" }, "responseElements": { "grantId": "a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d0e1f2a3b4c5d6e7f8a9b0c1d2e3f4a5b6c7d8e9f0a1b2", "keyId":"arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab" }, "requestID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE11111", "eventID": "a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-EXAMPLE22222", "readOnly": false, "resources": [{ "ARN": "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab", "accountId": "111122223333" }], "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "recipientAccountId": "111122223333" }
Note
When a grant is created with the
GranteeServicePrincipal parameter, the CloudTrail log entry for the
CreateGrant operation includes a granteeServicePrincipal field
instead of granteePrincipal. Similarly, if a
RetiringServicePrincipal is specified, the log entry includes a
retiringServicePrincipal field instead of
retiringPrincipal. This distinguishes grants that were explicitly
created with GranteeServicePrincipal for an Amazon service
principal from grants where an Amazon service is represented in the
granteePrincipal field.