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Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon EKS Auth - Service Authorization Reference
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Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon EKS Auth

Amazon EKS Auth (service prefix: eks-auth) provides the following service-specific operations, resources, actions, and condition keys for use in IAM permission policies.

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API operations defined by Amazon EKS Auth

The following table maps API operations to the IAM actions they authorize. Only condition keys that have static values for the given API and action are listed; for the full set of condition keys supported by each action, see the Actions table.

Operation IAM action Condition key Possible value(s) Access level

AssumeRoleForPodIdentity

eks-auth:AssumeRoleForPodIdentity

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Actions defined by Amazon EKS Auth

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

AssumeRoleForPodIdentity

Grants permission to exchange a Kubernetes service account token for temporary Amazon credentials

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

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Resource types defined by Amazon EKS Auth

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements.

Resource types ARN Condition keys

cluster

arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:cluster/${ClusterName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon EKS Auth

Amazon EKS Auth defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy.

Condition keys Description Type

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Filters access by a tag key and value pair

String