AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon Appflow flows

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2020-06-02
Last edited: 2022-02-28
Services: appflow

Control-plane actions (9)

By access level: 1 List, 8 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
AppFlow	9 of 31	1 List, 8 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	appflow:DescribeConnector, appflow:DescribeConnectorFields, appflow:DescribeConnectorProfiles, appflow:DescribeConnectors, appflow:DescribeFlowExecution, appflow:DescribeFlows, appflow:ListConnectorFields, appflow:ListConnectors, appflow:ListTagsForResource

AppFlow: 9 actions

appflow:DescribeConnector (Read)
appflow:DescribeConnectorFields (Read)
appflow:DescribeConnectorProfiles (Read)
appflow:DescribeConnectors (Read)
appflow:DescribeFlowExecution (Read)
appflow:DescribeFlows (Read)
appflow:ListConnectorFields (Read)
appflow:ListConnectors (List)
appflow:ListTagsForResource (Read)

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: all-resources.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants only List and Read actions.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "appflow:DescribeConnector",
        "appflow:DescribeConnectors",
        "appflow:DescribeConnectorProfiles",
        "appflow:DescribeFlows",
        "appflow:DescribeFlowExecution",
        "appflow:DescribeConnectorFields",
        "appflow:ListConnectors",
        "appflow:ListConnectorFields",
        "appflow:ListTagsForResource"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2022-02-28. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

AWS CLI

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "amazonappflowreadonlyaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AmazonAppFlowReadOnlyAccess"),
);

Sources

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