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Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Message Delivery Service - Service Authorization Reference
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Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Message Delivery Service

Amazon Message Delivery Service (service prefix: ec2messages) provides the following service-specific operations, resources, actions, and condition keys for use in IAM permission policies.

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Actions defined by Amazon Message Delivery 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.

Actions Description Resource types (*required) Condition keys Access level

AcknowledgeMessage

Grants permission to acknowledge a message, ensuring it will not be delivered again

Write

DeleteMessage

Grants permission to delete a message

Write

FailMessage

Grants permission to fail a message, signifying the message could not be processed successfully, ensuring it cannot be replied to or delivered again

Write

GetEndpoint

Grants permission to route traffic to the correct endpoint based on the given destination for the messages

Read

GetMessages

Grants permission to deliver messages to clients/instances using long polling

ec2:SourceInstanceARN

ssm:SourceInstanceARN

Read

SendReply

Grants permission to send replies from clients/instances to upstream service

ec2:SourceInstanceARN

ssm:SourceInstanceARN

Write

Resource types defined by Amazon Message Delivery Service

Amazon Message Delivery Service does not support specifying a resource ARN in the Resource element of an IAM policy statement.

Condition keys for Amazon Message Delivery Service

Amazon Message Delivery Service defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy.

Condition keys Description Type

ec2:SourceInstanceARN

Filters access by the ARN of the instance from which the request originated

ARN

ssm:SourceInstanceARN

Filters access by verifying the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon Systems Manager's managed instance from which the request is made. This key is not present when the request comes from the managed instance authenticated with an IAM role associated with EC2 instance profile

ARN