Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) - Service Authorization Reference
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Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) (service prefix: dax) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

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Actions defined by Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in Amazon. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions Description Access level Resource types (*required) Condition keys Dependent actions
BatchGetItem Grants permission to return the attributes of one or more items from one or more tables Read

application*

BatchWriteItem Grants permission to put or delete multiple items in one or more tables Write

application*

ConditionCheckItem Grants permission to the ConditionCheckItem operation that checks the existence of a set of attributes for the item with the given primary key Read

application*

CreateCluster Grants permission to create a DAX cluster Write

application*

dax:CreateParameterGroup

dax:CreateSubnetGroup

ec2:CreateNetworkInterface

ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface

ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces

ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups

ec2:DescribeSubnets

ec2:DescribeVpcs

iam:GetRole

iam:PassRole

CreateParameterGroup Grants permission to create a parameter group Write
CreateSubnetGroup Grants permission to create a subnet group Write
DecreaseReplicationFactor Grants permission to remove one or more nodes from a DAX cluster Write

application*

DeleteCluster Grants permission to delete a previously provisioned DAX cluster Write

application*

DeleteItem Grants permission to delete a single item in a table by primary key Write

application*

dax:EnclosingOperation

DeleteParameterGroup Grants permission to delete the specified parameter group Write
DeleteSubnetGroup Grants permission to delete a subnet group Write
DescribeClusters Grants permission to return information about all provisioned DAX clusters List

application

DescribeDefaultParameters Grants permission to return the default system parameter information for DAX List
DescribeEvents Grants permission to return events related to DAX clusters and parameter groups List
DescribeParameterGroups Grants permission to return a list of parameter group descriptions List
DescribeParameters Grants permission to return the detailed parameter list for a particular parameter group Read
DescribeSubnetGroups Grants permission to return a list of subnet group descriptions List
GetItem Grants permission to the GetItem operation that returns a set of attributes for the item with the given primary key Read

application*

dax:EnclosingOperation

IncreaseReplicationFactor Grants permission to add one or more nodes to a DAX cluster Write

application*

ListTags Grants permission to return a list all of the tags for a DAX cluster Read

application*

PutItem Grants permission to create a new item, or replace an old item with a new item Write

application*

dax:EnclosingOperation

Query Grants permission to use the primary key of a table or a secondary index to directly access items from that table or index Read

application*

RebootNode Grants permission to reboot a single node of a DAX cluster Write

application*

Scan Grants permission to return one or more items and item attributes by accessing every item in a table or a secondary index Read

application*

TagResource Grants permission to associate a set of tags with a DAX resource Tagging

application*

UntagResource Grants permission to remove the association of tags from a DAX resource Tagging

application*

UpdateCluster Grants permission to modify the settings for a DAX cluster Write

application*

UpdateItem Grants permission to edit an existing item's attributes, or adds a new item to the table if it does not already exist Write

application*

dax:EnclosingOperation

UpdateParameterGroup Grants permission to modify the parameters of a parameter group Write
UpdateSubnetGroup Grants permission to modify an existing subnet group Write

Resource types defined by Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types ARN Condition keys
application arn:${Partition}:dax:${Region}:${Account}:cache/${ClusterName}

Condition keys for Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys Description Type
dax:EnclosingOperation Used to block Transactions APIs calls and allow the non-Transaction APIs calls and vice-versa String