AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary

Summary

Amazon DataZone creates IAM roles that it uses for deploying data analytics projects. The reference page says DataZone uses this policy when creating these roles to define the boundary of their permissions.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundaryCopy ARN

Default version

v2

Created

2023-03-21

Last edited

2023-04-04

Services

athena, cloudformation, ec2, glue, iam, kms, lakeformation, logs, s3, ssm

Control-plane actions (431)

By access level: 239 List, 14 Permissions management, 128 Read, 8 Tagging, 42 Write.

Data-plane actions (17)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Permissions management, 8 Read, 2 Tagging, 4 Write.

Excluded and conditional actions

• s3:Abort* (deny-conditional, statement 15): 1 matching actions
• s3:DeleteBucket (deny-conditional, statement 15): 1 matching actions
• s3:DeleteObject* (deny-conditional, statement 15): 6 matching actions
• s3:GetBucket* (deny-conditional, statement 15): 16 matching actions
• s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration (deny-conditional, statement 15): 1 matching actions
• s3:GetObject* (deny-conditional, statement 15): 16 matching actions
• s3:List* (deny-conditional, statement 15): 18 matching actions
• s3:PutObject* (deny-conditional, statement 15): 9 matching actions
• kms:* (deny-conditional, statement 16): 58 matching actions
• athena:* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 86 matching actions
• cloudformation:CreateChangeSet (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:CreateStack (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:DeleteChangeSet (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:DeleteStack (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:DescribeStacks (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:GetTemplate (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:GetTemplateSummary (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:TagResource (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• cloudformation:UpdateStack (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• ec2:* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 834 matching actions
• glue:CreateDatabase (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• glue:DeleteDatabase (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• glue:GetDatabase (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• glue:GetDatabases (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:AttachRolePolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:CreatePolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:CreateRole (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:DeletePolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:DeleteRole (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:DeleteRolePolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:DetachRolePolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:GetPolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:GetRole (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:GetRolePolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:ListPolicyVersions (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:PassRole (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:PutRolePolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:TagRole (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• iam:UntagRole (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• kms:* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 58 matching actions
• lakeformation:DeregisterResource (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• lakeformation:GetDataLakeSettings (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• lakeformation:GrantPermissions (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• lakeformation:ListPermissions (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• lakeformation:PutDataLakeSettings (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• lakeformation:RegisterResource (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• lakeformation:RevokePermissions (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• lambda:* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 135 matching actions
• logs:* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 133 matching actions
• s3:Abort* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:CreateBucket (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:DeleteBucket (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:DeleteBucketPolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:GetBucket* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 16 matching actions
• s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:GetObject* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 16 matching actions
• s3:ListBucket (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutBucketAcl (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutBucketLogging (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutBucketPolicy (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutBucketTagging (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutBucketVersioning (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• s3:PutObject* (deny-not-action, statement 17): 9 matching actions
• servicecatalog:CreateApplication (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• servicecatalog:DeleteApplication (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• servicecatalog:GetApplication (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• ssm:AddTagsToResource (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• ssm:DeleteParameter (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• ssm:GetParameter (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• ssm:GetParameters (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions
• ssm:PutParameter (deny-not-action, statement 17): 1 matching actions

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

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

Why this tier

• Grants 72 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants permissions-management actions on iam on all resources without conditions.
• Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.
• Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).

Guidance

Related policies

Same service

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• AmazonAppFlowFullAccess
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonAthenaFullAccess
• AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy

Same domain

• AdministratorAccess
• AdministratorAccess-Amplify
• AIDevOpsAgentActionsPolicy
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccesswithDataPipeline
• AmazonEC2RoleforDataPipelineRole
• AmazonEC2RoleforSSM

Frequently asked questions

When should I attach AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary?

The description says DataZone uses it when creating the roles it uses for deploying data analytics projects, to define the boundary of their permissions. The reference page says you can attach it to your users, groups and roles. As a boundary it limits permissions and does not provide them, so it does not replace a permissions policy.

What does AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary grant?

It allows IAM role management on roles whose names contain "datazone" (creating roles and attaching policies only with the DataZone project role boundary set), plus S3, SSM, KMS, Athena, EC2 security group, CloudWatch Logs, Lake Formation and AWS Glue actions, several limited by name patterns or datazone tags. Used as a permissions boundary it sets a maximum and does not provide permissions on its own.

What are the security risks of AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary?

It includes write actions, including IAM role creation and deletion, iam:PassRole, lakeformation:GrantPermissions and ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup, and several of them apply to Resource "*". 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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateRole",
        "iam:DetachRolePolicy",
        "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
        "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
        "iam:PutRolePolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*datazone*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PermissionsBoundary": "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:DeleteRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*datazone*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:CreateKey",
        "kms:TagResource",
        "athena:CreateWorkGroup",
        "athena:TagResource",
        "iam:TagRole",
        "iam:TagPolicy",
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:TagLogGroup",
        "ssm:AddTagsToResource"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "datazone:*"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/datazone:projectId": "proj-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "athena:DeleteWorkGroup",
        "kms:ScheduleKeyDeletion",
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:EnableKeyRotation",
        "kms:DisableKeyRotation",
        "kms:GenerateDataKey",
        "kms:Encrypt",
        "kms:Decrypt",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/datazone:projectId": "proj-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "datazone:projectId"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:DeletePolicy",
        "s3:DeleteBucket"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:policy/datazone*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::datazone*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:GetParameter*",
        "ssm:PutParameter",
        "ssm:DeleteParameter"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:parameter/*datazone*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "iam:CreatePolicy",
        "iam:ListPolicyVersions",
        "lakeformation:RegisterResource",
        "lakeformation:DeregisterResource",
        "lakeformation:GrantPermissions",
        "lakeformation:PutDataLakeSettings",
        "lakeformation:GetDataLakeSettings",
        "lakeformation:RevokePermissions",
        "lakeformation:ListPermissions",
        "glue:CreateDatabase",
        "glue:DeleteDatabase",
        "glue:GetDatabases",
        "glue:GetDatabase",
        "sts:GetCallerIdentity"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*datazone*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration",
        "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock",
        "s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:PutBucketPolicy",
        "s3:PutBucketAcl",
        "s3:PutBucketVersioning",
        "s3:PutBucketTagging",
        "s3:PutBucketLogging",
        "s3:GetObject*",
        "s3:GetBucket*",
        "s3:List*",
        "s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration",
        "s3:DeleteObject*",
        "s3:PutObject*",
        "s3:Abort*"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*datazone*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "athena:Get*",
        "athena:List*",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:Describe*",
        "ec2:Get*",
        "ec2:List*",
        "logs:PutRetentionPolicy",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:DeleteLogGroup",
        "logs:DeleteRetentionPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:PutKeyPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
          "aws:CalledVia": [
            "cloudformation.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
      "NotResource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:VpceServiceName": [
            "com.amazonaws.*.logs",
            "com.amazonaws.*.s3",
            "com.amazonaws.*.glue",
            "com.amazonaws.*.athena"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
        "cloudformation:GetTemplate",
        "cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:DeleteChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:CreateStack",
        "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
        "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
        "cloudformation:TagResource",
        "cloudformation:GetTemplateSummary"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/DataZone*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject*",
        "s3:GetBucket*",
        "s3:List*",
        "s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration",
        "s3:DeleteObject*",
        "s3:PutObject*",
        "s3:Abort*",
        "s3:DeleteBucket"
      ],
      "NotResource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::*datazone*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": [
        "kms:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringNotEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "NotAction": [
        "ssm:PutParameter",
        "ssm:DeleteParameter",
        "ssm:AddTagsToResource",
        "ssm:GetParameters",
        "ssm:GetParameter",
        "s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration",
        "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock",
        "s3:DeleteBucketPolicy",
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:PutBucketAcl",
        "s3:PutBucketPolicy",
        "s3:PutBucketVersioning",
        "s3:PutBucketTagging",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:PutBucketLogging",
        "s3:DeleteBucket",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:CreatePolicy",
        "iam:ListPolicyVersions",
        "iam:DeletePolicy",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
        "cloudformation:GetTemplate",
        "cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:DeleteChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:TagResource",
        "cloudformation:CreateStack",
        "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
        "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
        "cloudformation:GetTemplateSummary",
        "athena:*",
        "kms:*",
        "glue:CreateDatabase",
        "glue:DeleteDatabase",
        "glue:GetDatabases",
        "glue:GetDatabase",
        "lambda:*",
        "ec2:*",
        "logs:*",
        "servicecatalog:CreateApplication",
        "servicecatalog:DeleteApplication",
        "servicecatalog:GetApplication",
        "lakeformation:RegisterResource",
        "lakeformation:DeregisterResource",
        "lakeformation:GrantPermissions",
        "lakeformation:PutDataLakeSettings",
        "lakeformation:RevokePermissions",
        "lakeformation:GetDataLakeSettings",
        "lakeformation:ListPermissions",
        "iam:CreateRole",
        "iam:DeleteRole",
        "iam:DetachRolePolicy",
        "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
        "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
        "iam:PutRolePolicy",
        "iam:UntagRole",
        "iam:PassRole",
        "iam:TagRole",
        "s3:GetBucket*",
        "s3:GetObject*",
        "s3:Abort*",
        "s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration",
        "s3:PutObject*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2023-04-04. 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/AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary

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

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

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

Sources

• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary (AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, practicalScope, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs, useCases)
• Permissions boundaries for IAM entities (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• 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 AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• Report a data issue