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Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (service prefix: eks) 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 Elastic Kubernetes Service

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 indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") 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. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you specify a resource-level permission ARN in a statement using this action, then it must be of this type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one but not the other.

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

Actions Description Access level Resource types (*required) Condition keys Dependent actions
AccessKubernetesApi [permission only] Grants permission to view Kubernetes objects via Amazon EKS console Read

cluster*

AssociateEncryptionConfig Grants permission to associate encryption configuration to a cluster Write

cluster*

AssociateIdentityProviderConfig Grants permission to associate an identity provider configuration to a cluster Write

cluster*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

eks:clientId

eks:issuerUrl

CreateAddon Grants permission to create an Amazon EKS add-on Write

cluster*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

CreateCluster Grants permission to create an Amazon EKS cluster Write

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

CreateFargateProfile Grants permission to create an Amazon Fargate profile Write

cluster*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

CreateNodegroup Grants permission to create an Amazon EKS Nodegroup Write

cluster*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

DeleteAddon Grants permission to delete an Amazon EKS add-on Write

addon*

DeleteCluster Grants permission to delete an Amazon EKS cluster Write

cluster*

DeleteFargateProfile Grants permission to delete an Amazon Fargate profile Write

fargateprofile*

DeleteNodegroup Grants permission to delete an Amazon EKS Nodegroup Write

nodegroup*

DeregisterCluster Grants permission to deregister an External cluster Write

cluster*

DescribeAddon Grants permission to retrieve descriptive information about an Amazon EKS add-on Read

addon*

DescribeAddonConfiguration Grants permission to list configuration options about an Amazon EKS add-on Read
DescribeAddonVersions Grants permission to retrieve descriptive version information about the add-ons that Amazon EKS Add-ons supports Read
DescribeCluster Grants permission to retrieve descriptive information about an Amazon EKS cluster Read

cluster*

DescribeFargateProfile Grants permission to retrieve descriptive information about an Amazon Fargate profile associated with a cluster Read

fargateprofile*

DescribeIdentityProviderConfig Grants permission to retrieve descriptive information about an Idp config associated with a cluster Read

identityproviderconfig*

DescribeNodegroup Grants permission to retrieve descriptive information about an Amazon EKS nodegroup Read

nodegroup*

DescribeUpdate Grants permission to retrieve a given update for a given Amazon EKS cluster/nodegroup/add-on (in the specified or default region) Read

cluster*

addon

nodegroup

DisassociateIdentityProviderConfig Grants permission to delete an asssociated Idp config Write

identityproviderconfig*

ListAddons Grants permission to list the Amazon EKS add-ons in your Amazon Web Services account (in the specified or default region) for a given cluster List

cluster*

ListClusters Grants permission to list the Amazon EKS clusters in your Amazon Web Services account (in the specified or default region) List
ListFargateProfiles Grants permission to list the Amazon Fargate profiles in your Amazon Web Services account (in the specified or default region) associated with a given cluster List

cluster*

ListIdentityProviderConfigs Grants permission to list the Idp configs in your Amazon Web Services account (in the specified or default region) associated with a given cluster List

cluster*

ListNodegroups Grants permission to list the Amazon EKS nodegroups in your Amazon Web Services account (in the specified or default region) attached to given cluster List

cluster*

ListTagsForResource Grants permission to list tags for the specified resource Read

addon

cluster

fargateprofile

identityproviderconfig

nodegroup

ListUpdates Grants permission to list the updates for a given Amazon EKS cluster/nodegroup/add-on (in the specified or default region) List

cluster*

addon

nodegroup

RegisterCluster Grants permission to register an External cluster Write

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

TagResource Grants permission to tag the specified resource Tagging

addon

cluster

fargateprofile

identityproviderconfig

nodegroup

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

UntagResource Grants permission to untag the specified resource Tagging

addon

cluster

fargateprofile

identityproviderconfig

nodegroup

aws:TagKeys

UpdateAddon Grants permission to update Amazon EKS add-on configurations, such as the VPC-CNI version Write

addon*

UpdateClusterConfig Grants permission to update Amazon EKS cluster configurations (eg: API server endpoint access) Write

cluster*

UpdateClusterVersion Grants permission to update the Kubernetes version of an Amazon EKS cluster Write

cluster*

UpdateNodegroupConfig Grants permission to update Amazon EKS nodegroup configurations (eg: min/max/desired capacity or labels) Write

nodegroup*

UpdateNodegroupVersion Grants permission to update the Kubernetes version of an Amazon EKS nodegroup Write

nodegroup*

Resource types defined by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

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 table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types ARN Condition keys
cluster arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:cluster/${ClusterName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

nodegroup arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:nodegroup/${ClusterName}/${NodegroupName}/${UUID}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

addon arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:addon/${ClusterName}/${AddonName}/${UUID}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

fargateprofile arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:fargateprofile/${ClusterName}/${FargateProfileName}/${UUID}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

identityproviderconfig arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:identityproviderconfig/${ClusterName}/${IdentityProviderType}/${IdentityProviderConfigName}/${UUID}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service 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
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} Filters access by a key that is present in the request the user makes to the EKS service String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} Filters access by a tag key and value pair String
aws:TagKeys Filters access by the list of all the tag key names present in the request the user makes to the EKS service ArrayOfString
eks:clientId Filters access by the clientId present in the associateIdentityProviderConfig request the user makes to the EKS service String
eks:issuerUrl Filters access by the issuerUrl present in the associateIdentityProviderConfig request the user makes to the EKS service String