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IAM Policy Map

Security, Identity & Compliance: Admin policies

Identity, access, encryption, threat detection and compliance.

28 AWS managed policies. 5 have reviewed guidance; the rest have authoritative permission data pending editorial review.

User access (27)

Inspector (4)

WAF, Firewall Manager and Shield (1)

Certificate Manager (2)

IAM (1)

Directory Service (2)

GuardDuty (2)

Vendor Insights (1)

Cloud Directory (1)

CloudHSM (1)

IAM Identity Center (1)

Macie (1)

Private CA (1)

Resource Access Manager (1)

Security Incident Response (1)

SecurityHub (1)

Other services (6)

  • AmazonCognitoPowerUserAdmin

    Provides administrative access to existing Amazon Cognito resources. You will need AWS account admin privileges to create new Cognito resources.

  • AmazonDetectiveFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to Amazon Detective service and scoped access to the console UI dependencies

  • AWSAuditManagerAdministratorAccessAdmin

    Provides administrative access to enable or disable AWS Audit Manager, update settings, and manage assessments, controls, and frameworks

  • AWSManagedSettingsAdminAccessAdmin

    Grants full administrative access to AWS account settings management. This policy allows owners to view and modify account information, billing, payments, tax registration, identity management, organization policies, budgets, cost analysis,…

  • MultiPartyApprovalFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to Multi-party approval. This policy also includes related permissions to AWS Organizations and AWS IAM Identity for managing approval teams and identity sources.

  • SecretsManagerReadWriteAdmin

    Provides read/write access to AWS Secrets Manager via the AWS Management Console. Note: this exludes IAM actions, so combine with IAMFullAccess if rotation configuration is required.

Service roles (1)

Other services (1)

  • AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicyAdmin

    Provides the AWS DDoS Response Team with limited access to your AWS account to assist with DDoS attack mitigation during a high-severity event.

Also relevant to Security, Identity & Compliance (29)
  • AdministratorAccessHigh privilegeAdmin

    Provides full access to AWS services and resources.

  • AdministratorAccess-AmplifyHigh privilegeAdmin

    Grants account administrative permissions while explicitly allowing direct access to resources needed by Amplify applications.

  • AIOpsConsoleAdminPolicyAdmin

    Grants full access to Amazon AI Operations service and its required permissions via AWS console. It also includes permissions to use identity-aware console sessions.

  • AmazonAppFlowFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to Amazon AppFlow and access to AWS services supported as flow source or destination (S3 and Redshift). Also provides access to KMS for encryption

  • AmazonAuroraDSQLConsoleFullAccessAdmin

    Provides console full administrative access to Aurora DSQL

  • AmazonAuroraDSQLFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full administrative access to Aurora DSQL

  • AmazonCloudWatchRUMFullAccessAdmin

    Grants full access permissions for the Amazon CloudWatch RUM service

  • AmazonCodeGuruProfilerFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to Amazon CodeGuru Profiler.

  • AmazonDocDBElasticFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters and other required permissions for its dependencies including EC2, KMS, SecretsManager, CloudWatch and IAM.

  • AmazonKendraFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to Amazon Kendra via the AWS Management Console.

  • AmazonLaunchWizard_FullaccessAdmin

    Full access to AWS Launch wizard and other required services.

  • AmazonLaunchWizardFullAccessV2Admin

    Full access to AWS Launch wizard and other required services.

  • AmazonMonitronFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to manage Amazon Monitron

  • AmazonQuickSuiteAccessPolicyAdmin

    Provides permissions for Amazon Quick Suite to manage its IAM Identity Center application, identity store users and groups, user subscriptions, and QuickSight resources on your behalf.

  • AmazonRDSDataFullAccessHigh privilegeAdmin

    Allows full access to use the RDS data APIs, secret store APIs for RDS database credentials, and DB console query management APIs to execute SQL statements on Aurora Serverless clusters in the AWS account.

  • AmazonSecurityLakeAdministratorAdmin

    Provides full access to Amazon Security Lake and related services needed to administer Security Lake.

  • AWSBudgetsActionsWithAWSResourceControlAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to AWS Budgets Actions including using Budgets Actions to control states of running AWS resources via AWS Management Console

  • AWSCODAPermissionsBoundaryHigh privilegeAdmin

    AWS CODA creates IAM roles for delegations, and uses this policy when creating these roles to define the boundary of their permissions.

  • AWSDataPipeline_PowerUserAdmin

    Provides full access to Data Pipeline, list access for S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, RDS, SNS, and IAM roles, and passRole access for default Roles.

  • AWSDataSyncFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to AWS DataSync and minimal access to its dependencies

  • AwsGlueDataBrewFullAccessPolicyAdmin

    Provides full access to AWS Glue DataBrew via the AWS Management Console. Also provides select access to related services (e.g., S3, KMS, Glue).

  • AWSGrafanaAccountAdministratorAdmin

    Provides access within Amazon Grafana to create and manage workspaces for the entire organization.

  • AWSMigrationHubOrchestratorConsoleFullAccessAdmin

    Provides limited access to AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Discovery Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service and AWS Secrets Manager. This policy also grants full access to AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator service.

  • AWSSSOMasterAccountAdministratorHigh privilegeAdmin

    Provides access within AWS SSO to manage AWS Organizations master and member accounts and cloud application

  • AWSSSOMemberAccountAdministratorHigh privilegeAdmin

    Provides access within AWS SSO to manage AWS Organizations member accounts and cloud application

  • AWSSupportPlansFullAccessAdmin

    Provides full access to supportplans.

  • IAMFullAccessHigh privilegeAdmin

    Provides full access to IAM via the AWS Management Console.

  • PowerUserAccessHigh privilegeAdmin

    Provides full access to AWS services and resources, but does not allow management of Users and groups.

  • SupportUserAdmin

    This policy grants permissions to troubleshoot and resolve issues in an AWS account. This policy also enables the user to contact AWS support to create and manage cases.

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