AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2

Summary

Provides full access to Amazon DynamoDB. The Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide calls it a scoped-down policy that grants administrative access to DynamoDB resources and to the AWS services DynamoDB is integrated with, and says it replaced the deprecated AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2Copy ARN

Default version

v3

Created

2025-05-22

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

application-autoscaling, cloudwatch, dax, dynamodb, ec2, iam, kinesis, kms, lambda, sns, tag

Control-plane actions (121)

By access level: 21 List, 3 Permissions management, 38 Read, 4 Tagging, 55 Write.

Data-plane actions (19)

By access level: 11 Read, 8 Write.

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: dax (16 of 16), dynamodb (45 of 45).
• Grants data-plane write actions on a data store on all resources without conditions.
• 13 granted write or permissions-management actions have no data-plane classification from AWS, so the data-plane rule cannot assess them.

Guidance

Related policies

Same service

• AmazonAppStreamFullAccess
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccesswithDataPipeline
• AmazonDynamoDBReadOnlyAccess
• AmazonEC2RoleforDataPipelineRole
• AmazonECS_FullAccess
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices
• AmazonElasticMapReduceforEC2Role

Same domain

• AdministratorAccess
• AdministratorAccess-Amplify
• AIDevOpsAgentActionsPolicy
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonEC2RoleforSSM
• AmazonElasticMapReduceFullAccess
• AmazonElasticMapReduceRole
• AmazonElasticTranscoderRole

Frequently asked questions

When should I attach AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2?

The Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide says you can attach it to your IAM identities, and that it grants administrative access to DynamoDB resources and to the services DynamoDB is integrated with for all DynamoDB features available in the console. The guide says it replaced the deprecated AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess.

What does AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2 grant?

It allows dynamodb:* and dax:* on all resources, plus limited KMS, Lambda, SNS, Application Auto Scaling, tagging, CloudWatch, Kinesis, EC2 describe and iam:ListRoles actions, and iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole for five named services.

What are the security risks of AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2?

dynamodb:* and dax:* allow every DynamoDB and DynamoDB Accelerator action on all resources. 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": "DDBAndDAXFullAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "dynamodb:*",
        "dax:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "KMSIntegration",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:ListAliases"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "LambdaIntegration",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",
        "lambda:ListFunctions"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DaxSNSIntegration",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sns:ListTopics"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationAutoscalingIntegration",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:DeleteScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:DeregisterScalableTarget",
        "application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "application-autoscaling:service-namespace": "dynamodb"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationAutoscalingDescribeActions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "TagManagement",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudwatchMonitoring",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ListKinesisResources",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "kinesis:DescribeStream",
        "kinesis:DescribeStreamSummary"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ListEC2ResourcesForDaxClusterCreation",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudwatchInsightsRules",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudwatch:GetInsightRuleReport",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:insight-rule/DynamoDBContributorInsights*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ServiceRoleCreation",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": [
            "replication.dynamodb.amazonaws.com",
            "dax.amazonaws.com",
            "dynamodb.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com",
            "contributorinsights.dynamodb.amazonaws.com",
            "kinesisreplication.dynamodb.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "IamIntegration",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, 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 iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "amazondynamodbfullaccess_v2" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2"),
);

Sources

• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2 (AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, practicalScope, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• AWS managed policies for Amazon DynamoDB (Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports summary, useCases, 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 AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2
• AWS service guide
• Report a data issue