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PutKeyPolicy

Attaches a key policy to the specified KMS key.

For more information about key policies, see Key Policies in the Amazon Key Management Service Developer Guide. For help writing and formatting a JSON policy document, see the IAM JSON Policy Reference in the Amazon Identity and Access Management User Guide . For examples of adding a key policy in multiple programming languages, see Setting a key policy in the Amazon Key Management Service Developer Guide.

Cross-account use: No. You cannot perform this operation on a KMS key in a different Amazon Web Services account.

Required permissions: kms:PutKeyPolicy (key policy)

Related operations: GetKeyPolicy

Request Syntax

{
   "BypassPolicyLockoutSafetyCheck": boolean,
   "KeyId": "string",
   "Policy": "string",
   "PolicyName": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

Examples

Example Request

The following example is formatted for legibility.

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: kms.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
Content-Length: 2396
X-Amz-Target: TrentService.PutKeyPolicy
X-Amz-Date: 20161207T203023Z
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256\
 Credential=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE/20161207/us-east-2/kms/aws4_request,\
 SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target,\
 Signature=e58ea91db06afc1bc7a1f204769cf6bc4d003ee090095a13caef361c69739ede

{
    "Policy": "{
        \"Version\": \"2012-10-17\",
        \"Id\": \"custom-policy-2016-12-07\",
        \"Statement\": [
            {
                \"Sid\": \"Enable IAM User Permissions\",
                \"Effect\": \"Allow\",
                \"Principal\": {
                    \"AWS\": \"arn:aws:iam::111122223333:root\"
                },
                \"Action\": \"kms:*\",
                \"Resource\": \"*\"
            },
            {
                \"Sid\": \"Allow access for Key Administrators\",
                \"Effect\": \"Allow\",
                \"Principal\": {
                    \"AWS\": [
                        \"arn:aws:iam::111122223333:user/ExampleAdminUser\",
                        \"arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/ExampleAdminRole\"
                    ]
                },
                \"Action\": [
                    \"kms:Create*\",
                    \"kms:Describe*\",
                    \"kms:Enable*\",
                    \"kms:List*\",
                    \"kms:Put*\",
                    \"kms:Update*\",
                    \"kms:Revoke*\",
                    \"kms:Disable*\",
                    \"kms:Get*\",
                    \"kms:Delete*\",
                    \"kms:ScheduleKeyDeletion\",
                    \"kms:CancelKeyDeletion\"
                ],
                \"Resource\": \"*\"
            },
            {
                \"Sid\": \"Allow use of the key\",
                \"Effect\": \"Allow\",
                \"Principal\": {
                    \"AWS\": \"arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/ExamplePowerUserRole\"
                },
                \"Action\": [
                    \"kms:Encrypt\",
                    \"kms:Decrypt\",
                    \"kms:ReEncrypt*\",
                    \"kms:GenerateDataKey*\",
                    \"kms:DescribeKey\"
                ],
                \"Resource\": \"*\"
            },
            {
                \"Sid\": \"Allow attachment of persistent resources\",
                \"Effect\": \"Allow\",
                \"Principal\": {
                    \"AWS\": \"arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/ExamplePowerUserRole\"
                },
                \"Action\": [
                    \"kms:CreateGrant\",
                    \"kms:ListGrants\",
                    \"kms:RevokeGrant\"
                ],
                \"Resource\": \"*\",
                \"Condition\": {
                    \"Bool\": {
                        \"kms:GrantIsForAWSResource\": \"true\"
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
    }",
    "PolicyName": "default",
    "KeyId": "1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab"
}

Example Response

This example illustrates one usage of PutKeyPolicy.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Server
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:30:23 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
x-amzn-RequestId: fb114d4c-bcbb-11e6-82b3-e9e4af764a06

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: