AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited

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Summary

Provides EC2 limited access to S3 bucket to download revision. This role is needed by the CodeDeploy agent on EC2 instances.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited
Default version: v2
Created: 2020-08-24
Last edited: 2022-01-20
Services: s3

Control-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Data-plane actions (3)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
S3	3 of 25	1 List, 2 Read; 3 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetObject, s3:GetObjectVersion, s3:ListBucket

S3: 3 actions

s3:GetObject (Read)
s3:GetObjectVersion (Read)
s3:ListBucket (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 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

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": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetObjectVersion",
        "s3:ListBucket"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*/CodeDeploy/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetObjectVersion"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "s3:ExistingObjectTag/UseWithCodeDeploy": "true"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2022-01-20. 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/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_amazonec2roleforawscodedeploylimited" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforAWSCodeDeployLimited"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.