AmazonEC2RoleforSSM

Summary

This policy will soon be deprecated. Please use AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore policy to enable AWS Systems Manager service core functionality on EC2 instances. For more information see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/setup-instance-profile.html

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforSSMCopy ARN

Default version

v8

Created

2015-05-29

Last edited

2019-01-24

Services

cloudwatch, ds, ec2, ec2messages, logs, s3, ssm, ssmmessages

Control-plane actions (35)

By access level: 7 List, 11 Read, 17 Write.

Data-plane actions (6)

By access level: 2 List, 1 Read, 3 Write.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: all-resources.

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

Why this tier

• Grants 20 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants data-plane write actions on a data store on all resources without conditions.
• Can read secret values or decrypt data. Reads are not a High privilege rule.

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.

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• AmazonAPIGatewayPushToCloudWatchLogs
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• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary

Same domain

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

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": [
        "ssm:DescribeAssociation",
        "ssm:GetDeployablePatchSnapshotForInstance",
        "ssm:GetDocument",
        "ssm:DescribeDocument",
        "ssm:GetManifest",
        "ssm:GetParameters",
        "ssm:ListAssociations",
        "ssm:ListInstanceAssociations",
        "ssm:PutInventory",
        "ssm:PutComplianceItems",
        "ssm:PutConfigurePackageResult",
        "ssm:UpdateAssociationStatus",
        "ssm:UpdateInstanceAssociationStatus",
        "ssm:UpdateInstanceInformation"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssmmessages:CreateControlChannel",
        "ssmmessages:CreateDataChannel",
        "ssmmessages:OpenControlChannel",
        "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2messages:AcknowledgeMessage",
        "ec2messages:DeleteMessage",
        "ec2messages:FailMessage",
        "ec2messages:GetEndpoint",
        "ec2messages:GetMessages",
        "ec2messages:SendReply"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ds:CreateComputer",
        "ds:DescribeDirectories"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetEncryptionConfiguration",
        "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v8, edited by AWS on 2019-01-24. 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/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforSSM
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforSSM
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforSSM

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforSSM

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_amazonec2roleforssm" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforSSM"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AmazonEC2RoleforSSM"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AmazonEC2RoleforSSM
• Report a data issue