Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon managed policies for Amazon Shield

An Amazon managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by Amazon. Amazon managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.

Keep in mind that Amazon managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all Amazon customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.

You cannot change the permissions defined in Amazon managed policies. If Amazon updates the permissions defined in an Amazon managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. Amazon is most likely to update an Amazon managed policy when a new Amazon Web Service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see Amazon managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

Amazon managed policy: AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy

Amazon Shield uses this managed policy when you grant permission to the Shield Response Team (SRT) to act on your behalf. This policy gives the SRT limited access to your Amazon account, to assist with DDoS attack mitigation during high-severity events. This policy allows the SRT to manage your Amazon WAF rules and Shield Advanced protections and to access your Amazon WAF logs.

For information about granting permission to the SRT to operate on your behalf, see Configuring access for the Shield Response Team (SRT).

For details about this policy, see AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy in the IAM console.

Amazon managed policy: AWSShieldServiceRolePolicy

Shield Advanced uses this managed policy when you enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation, to set the permissions it needs to manage resources for your account. This policy allows Shield Advanced to create and apply Amazon WAF rules and rule groups in the web ACLs that you've associated with your protected resources, to automatically respond to DDoS attacks.

You can't attach AWSShieldServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities. Shield attaches this policy to the service-linked role AWSServiceRoleForAWSShield to allow Shield to perform actions on your behalf.

Shield Advanced enables the use of this policy when you enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation. For more information about the use for this policy, see Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation.

For information about the service-linked role AWSServiceRoleForAWSShield that uses this policy, see Using service-linked roles for Shield Advanced

For details about this policy, see AWSShieldServiceRolePolicy in the IAM console.

Shield updates to Amazon managed policies

View details about updates to Amazon managed policies for Shield since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the Shield document history page at Document history.