AmazonCognitoPowerUser

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Summary

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

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonCognitoPowerUser
Default version: v9
Created: 2015-03-24
Last edited: 2026-02-12
Services: acm, cognito-identity, cognito-idp, cognito-sync, iam, kinesis, lambda, mobiletargeting, ses, sms-voice, sns

Control-plane actions (197)

By access level: 29 List, 55 Read, 4 Tagging, 109 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Certificate Manager	1 of 42	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	acm:ListCertificates
Cognito Identity	All 21 actions (see the Cognito Identity page)	2 List, 9 Read, 2 Tagging, 8 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cognito-identity:*
Cognito User Pools	All 139 actions (see the Cognito User Pools page)	18 List, 29 Read, 2 Tagging, 90 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cognito-idp:*
Cognito Sync	All 19 actions (see the Cognito Sync page)	1 List, 9 Read, 9 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cognito-sync:*
IAM	8 of 190	3 List, 3 Read, 2 Write; 3 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole, iam:GetRole, iam:GetSAMLProvider, iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus, iam:ListOpenIdConnectProviders, iam:ListRoles, iam:ListSAMLProviders
Kinesis	1 of 42	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kinesis:ListStreams
Lambda	2 of 121	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	lambda:GetPolicy, lambda:ListFunctions
Pinpoint	1 of 119	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	mobiletargeting:GetApps
SES	2 of 231	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ses:GetIdentityVerificationAttributes, ses:ListIdentities
Pinpoint SMS Voice	1 of 107	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sms-voice:DescribeAccountAttributes
SNS	2 of 40	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sns:GetSMSSandboxAccountStatus, sns:ListPlatformApplications

Certificate Manager: 1 actions

acm:ListCertificates (List)

IAM: 8 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:GetSAMLProvider (Read)
iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus (Read)
iam:ListOpenIDConnectProviders (List)
iam:ListRoles (List)
iam:ListSAMLProviders (List)

Kinesis: 1 actions

kinesis:ListStreams (List)

Lambda: 2 actions

lambda:GetPolicy (Read)
lambda:ListFunctions (List)

Pinpoint: 1 actions

mobiletargeting:GetApps (Read)

SES: 2 actions

ses:GetIdentityVerificationAttributes (Read)
ses:ListIdentities (List)

Pinpoint SMS Voice: 1 actions

sms-voice:DescribeAccountAttributes (Read)

SNS: 2 actions

sns:GetSMSSandboxAccountStatus (Read)
sns:ListPlatformApplications (List)

Data-plane actions (5)

By access level: 3 Read, 2 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Cognito Identity	All 5 actions (see the Cognito Identity page)	3 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cognito-identity:*

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: cognito-identity (10 of 10), cognito-idp (90 of 90), cognito-sync (9 of 9).

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

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

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cognito-identity:*",
        "cognito-idp:*",
        "cognito-sync:*",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "iam:ListOpenIdConnectProviders",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListSAMLProviders",
        "iam:GetSAMLProvider",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "lambda:GetPolicy",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "sns:GetSMSSandboxAccountStatus",
        "sns:ListPlatformApplications",
        "ses:ListIdentities",
        "ses:GetIdentityVerificationAttributes",
        "mobiletargeting:GetApps",
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "sms-voice:DescribeAccountAttributes"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": [
            "cognito-idp.amazonaws.com",
            "email.cognito-idp.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
        "iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/cognito-idp.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonCognitoIdp*",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/email.cognito-idp.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonCognitoIdpEmail*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v9, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. 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/AmazonCognitoPowerUser
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonCognitoPowerUser
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonCognitoPowerUser

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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