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

Amazon MemoryDB (service prefix: memorydb) 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 MemoryDB

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

BatchUpdateCluster

memorydb:BatchUpdateCluster

Write

CopySnapshot

memorydb:CopySnapshot

Write

CreateACL

memorydb:CreateAcl

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

CreateCluster

memorydb:CreateCluster

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

CreateMultiRegionCluster

memorydb:CreateMultiRegionCluster

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

CreateParameterGroup

memorydb:CreateParameterGroup

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

CreateSnapshot

memorydb:CreateSnapshot

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

CreateSubnetGroup

memorydb:CreateSubnetGroup

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

CreateUser

memorydb:CreateUser

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

DeleteACL

memorydb:DeleteAcl

Write

DeleteCluster

memorydb:CreateSnapshot

Write

memorydb:DeleteCluster

Write

DeleteMultiRegionCluster

memorydb:DeleteMultiRegionCluster

Write

DeleteParameterGroup

memorydb:DeleteParameterGroup

Write

DeleteSnapshot

memorydb:DeleteSnapshot

Write

DeleteSubnetGroup

memorydb:DeleteSubnetGroup

Write

DeleteUser

memorydb:DeleteUser

Write

DescribeACLs

memorydb:DescribeAcls

Read

DescribeClusters

memorydb:DescribeClusters

Read

DescribeEngineVersions

memorydb:DescribeEngineVersions

Read

DescribeEvents

memorydb:DescribeEvents

Read

DescribeMultiRegionClusters

memorydb:DescribeMultiRegionClusters

Read

DescribeMultiRegionParameterGroups

memorydb:DescribeMultiRegionParameterGroups

Read

DescribeMultiRegionParameters

memorydb:DescribeMultiRegionParameters

Read

DescribeParameterGroups

memorydb:DescribeParameterGroups

Read

DescribeParameters

memorydb:DescribeParameters

Read

DescribeReservedNodes

memorydb:DescribeReservedNodes

Read

DescribeReservedNodesOfferings

memorydb:DescribeReservedNodesOfferings

Read

DescribeServiceUpdates

memorydb:DescribeServiceUpdates

Read

DescribeSnapshots

memorydb:DescribeSnapshots

Read

DescribeSubnetGroups

memorydb:DescribeSubnetGroups

Read

DescribeUsers

memorydb:DescribeUsers

Read

FailoverShard

memorydb:FailoverShard

Write

ListAllowedMultiRegionClusterUpdates

memorydb:ListAllowedMultiRegionClusterUpdates

Read

ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates

memorydb:ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates

Read

ListTags

memorydb:ListTags

Read

PurchaseReservedNodesOffering

memorydb:PurchaseReservedNodesOffering

Write

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

ResetParameterGroup

memorydb:ResetParameterGroup

Write

TagResource

memorydb:TagResource

Tagging, Write

UntagResource

memorydb:UntagResource

Tagging, Write

UpdateACL

memorydb:UpdateAcl

Write

UpdateCluster

memorydb:UpdateCluster

Write

UpdateMultiRegionCluster

memorydb:UpdateMultiRegionCluster

Write

UpdateParameterGroup

memorydb:UpdateParameterGroup

Write

UpdateSubnetGroup

memorydb:UpdateSubnetGroup

Write

UpdateUser

memorydb:UpdateUser

Write

Actions defined by Amazon MemoryDB

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

BatchUpdateCluster

Grants permissions to apply service updates

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

Connect

Allows an IAM user or role to connect as a specified MemoryDB user to a node in a cluster

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

user*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

CopySnapshot

Grants permissions to make a copy of an existing snapshot

snapshot*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Write

CreateAcl

Grants permissions to create a new access control list

user*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Write

CreateCluster

Grants permissions to create a cluster

acl*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Write

multiregioncluster

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

parametergroup*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

snapshot

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

subnetgroup*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

CreateMultiRegionCluster

Grants permissions to create a Multi-Region cluster

multiregionparametergroup*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Write

CreateParameterGroup

Grants permissions to create a new parameter group

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Write

CreateSnapshot

Grants permissions to create a backup of a cluster at the current point in time

cluster*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Write

CreateSubnetGroup

Grants permissions to create a new subnet group

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Write

CreateUser

Grants permissions to create a new user

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:UserAuthenticationMode

Write

DeleteAcl

Grants permissions to delete an access control list

acl*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

DeleteCluster

Grants permissions to delete a previously provisioned cluster

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

multiregioncluster

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

snapshot

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

DeleteMultiRegionCluster

Grants permissions to delete a Multi-Region cluster

multiregioncluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Write

DeleteParameterGroup

Grants permissions to delete a parameter group

parametergroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

DeleteSnapshot

Grants permissions to delete a snapshot

snapshot*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

DeleteSubnetGroup

Grants permissions to delete a subnet group

subnetgroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

DeleteUser

Grants permissions to delete a user

user*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

DescribeAcls

Grants permissions to retrieve information about access control lists

acl*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribeClusters

Grants permissions to retrieve information about all provisioned clusters if no cluster identifier is specified, or about a specific cluster if a cluster identifier is supplied

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribeEngineVersions

Grants permissions to list of the available engines and their versions

Read

DescribeEvents

Grants permissions to retrieve events related to clusters, subnet groups, and parameter groups

Read

DescribeMultiRegionClusters

Grants permissions to retrieve information about all Multi-Region clusters if no cluster identifier is specified, or about a specific Multi-Region cluster if a cluster identifier is supplied

multiregioncluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Read

DescribeMultiRegionParameterGroups

Grants permissions to retrieve information about Multi-Region parameter groups

multiregionparametergroup*

Read

DescribeMultiRegionParameters

Grants permissions to retrieve a detailed parameter list for a particular Multi-Region parameter group

multiregionparametergroup*

Read

DescribeParameterGroups

Grants permissions to retrieve information about parameter groups

parametergroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribeParameters

Grants permissions to retrieve a detailed parameter list for a particular parameter group

parametergroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribeReservedNodes

Grants permissions to retrieve reserved nodes

reservednode*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribeReservedNodesOfferings

Grants permissions to retrieve reserved nodes offerings

Read

DescribeServiceUpdates

Grants permissions to retrieve details of the service updates

Read

DescribeSnapshots

Grants permissions to retrieve information about cluster snapshots

snapshot*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribeSubnetGroups

Grants permissions to retrieve a list of subnet group

subnetgroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribeUsers

Grants permissions to retrieve information about users

user*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

FailoverShard

Grants permissions to test automatic failover on a specified shard in a cluster

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

ListAllowedMultiRegionClusterUpdates

Grants permissions to list available Multi-Region cluster updates

multiregioncluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Read

ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates

Grants permissions to list available node type updates

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

ListTags

Grants permissions to list cost allocation tags

acl

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Read

cluster

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

multiregioncluster

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

parametergroup

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

snapshot

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

subnetgroup

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

user

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

PurchaseReservedNodesOffering

Grants permissions to purchase a new reserved node

reservednode*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Write

ResetParameterGroup

Grants permissions to modify the parameters of a parameter group to the engine or system default value

parametergroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

TagResource

Grants permissions to add up to 10 cost allocation tags to the named resource

acl

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Tagging, Write

cluster

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

multiregioncluster

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

parametergroup

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

reservednode

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

snapshot

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

subnetgroup

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

user

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

UntagResource

Grants permissions to remove the tags identified by the TagKeys list from a resource

acl

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

Tagging, Write

cluster

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

multiregioncluster

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

memorydb:TLSEnabled

parametergroup

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

snapshot

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

subnetgroup

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

user

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

UpdateAcl

Grants permissions to update an access control list

acl*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

user*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

UpdateCluster

Grants permissions to update the settings for a cluster

acl

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

cluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

parametergroup

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

UpdateMultiRegionCluster

Grants permissions to update the settings for a Multi-Region cluster

multiregioncluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Write

multiregionparametergroup

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

UpdateParameterGroup

Grants permissions to update parameters in a parameter group

parametergroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

UpdateSubnetGroup

Grants permissions to update a subnet group

subnetgroup*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

UpdateUser

Grants permissions to update a user

user*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:UserAuthenticationMode

Write

Permission-only actions for Amazon MemoryDB

The following actions are defined by Amazon MemoryDB but are not directly invocable through any API operation. They can only be used in IAM policy statements to grant or deny permissions.

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

PauseMultiRegionClusterReplication

Grants permission to pause replication for a Multi-Region cluster

multiregioncluster*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Write

Resource types defined by Amazon MemoryDB

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

acl

arn:${Partition}:memorydb:${Region}:${Account}:acl/${AclName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

cluster

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

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

multiregioncluster

arn:${Partition}:memorydb::${Account}:multiregioncluster/${ClusterName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

memorydb:TLSEnabled

multiregionparametergroup

arn:${Partition}:memorydb::${Account}:multiregionparametergroup/${MultiRegionParameterGroupName}

parametergroup

arn:${Partition}:memorydb:${Region}:${Account}:parametergroup/${ParameterGroupName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

reservednode

arn:${Partition}:memorydb:${Region}:${Account}:reservednode/${ReservationID}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

snapshot

arn:${Partition}:memorydb:${Region}:${Account}:snapshot/${SnapshotName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

subnetgroup

arn:${Partition}:memorydb:${Region}:${Account}:subnetgroup/${SubnetGroupName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

user

arn:${Partition}:memorydb:${Region}:${Account}:user/${UserName}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon MemoryDB

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

Condition keys Description Type

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

Filters actions based on the tags that are passed in the request

String

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Filters actions based on the tags associated with the resource

String

aws:TagKeys

Filters actions based on the tag keys that are passed in the request

ArrayOfString

memorydb:TLSEnabled

Filters access by the TLSEnabled parameter present in the request or defaults to true value if parameter is not present

Bool

memorydb:UserAuthenticationMode

Filters access by the UserAuthenticationMode.Type parameter in the request

String