AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess

Summary

Allows full administrative access to Amazon Bio Discovery. The policy also includes related permissions for IAM Identity Center and the identity store, EC2 networking, S3 and AWS KMS.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections reviewed against the listed AWS sources.

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v2

Created

2026-08-18

Last edited

2026-11-06

Services

ec2, iam, identitystore, kms, researchstudio, s3, sso

Control-plane actions (40)

By access level: 13 List, 10 Read, 17 Write.

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 List.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

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

Why this tier

• Grants 17 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).

Guidance

Related policies

Same service

• AIOpsConsoleAdminPolicy
• AmazonBioDiscoveryInAppFullAccess
• AmazonHoneycodeServiceRolePolicy
• AWSControlTowerIdentityCenterManagementPolicy
• AWSDeadlineCloud-UserAccessFleets
• AWSDeadlineCloud-UserAccessJobs
• AWSGrafanaWorkspacePermissionManagement
• AWSGrafanaWorkspacePermissionManagementV2

Same domain

• AccessAnalyzerServiceRolePolicy
• AccountManagementFromVercel
• AlexaForBusinessNetworkProfileServicePolicy
• AmazonAppStreamPCAAccess
• AmazonChimeServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonCloudDirectoryFullAccess
• AmazonCloudDirectoryReadOnlyAccess
• AmazonCloudWatchEvidentlyReadOnlyAccess

Frequently asked questions

When should I attach AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess?

The reference page says you can attach AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess to your users, groups and roles, and describes it as: allows full administrative access to Amazon Bio Discovery. Attach it where administering Amazon Bio Discovery is the intended scope.

What does AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess grant?

It allows researchstudio:* on all resources, 21 IAM Identity Center sso actions on application ARNs, identitystore read actions, iam:PassRole to researchstudio.amazonaws.com, creation of the Amazon Bio Discovery service-linked role, EC2 describe actions, S3 bucket listing and encryption configuration reads, and kms:Decrypt through IAM Identity Center and the identity store.

What are the security risks of AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess?

researchstudio:* allows every Bio Discovery action, it can create and delete IAM Identity Center applications, and it can pass roles to the service. AWS managed policies don't grant least privilege permissions, and you must consider the security risk of granting principals more permissions than they need. AWS updates to the policy affect every identity it is attached to.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "researchstudio:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryPassRoleAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "researchstudio.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryIdentityStoreAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "identitystore:ListGroupMembershipsForMember",
        "identitystore:ListGroups",
        "identitystore:ListUsers",
        "identitystore:DescribeGroup",
        "identitystore:DescribeUser"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:identitystore::*:identitystore/*",
        "arn:aws:identitystore:::user/*",
        "arn:aws:identitystore:::group/*",
        "arn:aws:identitystore:::membership/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryIdentityCenterAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sso:CreateApplication",
        "sso:CreateApplicationAssignment",
        "sso:DeleteApplication",
        "sso:DeleteApplicationAuthenticationMethod",
        "sso:DeleteApplicationGrant",
        "sso:DescribeApplication",
        "sso:DescribeApplicationAssignment",
        "sso:GetApplicationAuthenticationMethod",
        "sso:GetApplicationGrant",
        "sso:PutApplicationAuthenticationMethod",
        "sso:PutApplicationGrant",
        "sso:DeleteApplicationAssignment",
        "sso:DescribeInstance",
        "sso:ListInstances",
        "sso:ListApplications",
        "sso:ListApplicationAssignments",
        "sso:ListApplicationGrants",
        "sso:PutApplicationAccessScope",
        "sso:DeleteApplicationAccessScope",
        "sso:ListApplicationAccessScopes",
        "sso:DescribeRegisteredRegions"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sso:::instance/*",
        "arn:aws:sso::*:application/*/*",
        "arn:aws:sso::aws:applicationProvider/ResearchStudio"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryIdentityCenterKMSAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnLike": {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:sso:instance-arn": "arn:aws:sso:::instance/*"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "sso.*.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryIdentityStoreKMSAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnLike": {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:identitystore:identitystore-arn": "arn:aws:identitystore::*:identitystore/*"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "identitystore.*.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCreateAmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/researchstudio.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonBioDiscovery",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "researchstudio.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryVpcDescribeAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryS3ListBucketsAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "s3:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonBioDiscoveryS3BucketReadAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2026-11-06. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

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

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

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

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

Sources

• AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess (AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, practicalScope, useCases, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• Grant a user permissions to pass a role to an AWS service (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports securityConsiderations)
• Managed policies and inline policies (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports securityConsiderations, faqs)
• AWS managed policies for job functions (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports bestPractices, faqs)

• Official AWS reference for AmazonBioDiscoveryFullAccess
• Report a data issue