AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices

Summary

These permissions enable Amazon ECS to automatically provision and manage the infrastructure components required for Express Gateway Services, including load balancing, security groups, SSL certificates, and auto scaling configurations.

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

Identity

ARN

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

Default version

v6

Created

2025-11-12

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

acm, application-autoscaling, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, iam, logs

Control-plane actions (51)

By access level: 6 List, 9 Read, 6 Tagging, 30 Write.

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

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 36 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.

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.

Related policies

Same service

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• AIDevOpsReleaseManagementVPCPolicy
• AmazonAppStreamFullAccess
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary

Same domain

• AmazonAPIGatewayAdministrator
• AmazonAPIGatewayInvokeFullAccess
• AmazonApplicationRecoveryControllerRegionSwitchPlanExecutionPolicy
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleForGatewayHostSharedALB
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForLoadBalancers
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice
• AmazonEKSClusterPolicy
• AmazonEKSLoadBalancingPolicy

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "ServiceLinkedRoleCreateOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": [
            "ecs.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com",
            "elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ELBOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateRule",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyRule",
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddListenerCertificates",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RemoveListenerCertificates",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteRule",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteListener"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/app/*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:listener/app/*/*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:listener-rule/app/*/*/*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/*/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "TagOnCreateELBResources",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/app/*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:listener/app/*/*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:listener-rule/app/*/*/*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/*/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "elasticloadbalancing:CreateAction": [
            "CreateLoadBalancer",
            "CreateListener",
            "CreateRule",
            "CreateTargetGroup"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "BlanketAllowCreateSecurityGroupsInVPCs",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateSecurityGroupResourcesWithTags",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group-rule/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ModifySecurityGroupOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "TagOnCreateEC2Resources",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group-rule/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": [
            "CreateSecurityGroup",
            "AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
            "AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CertificateOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:RequestCertificate",
        "acm:AddTagsToCertificate",
        "acm:DeleteCertificate",
        "acm:DescribeCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:acm:*:*:certificate/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationAutoscalingCreateOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget",
        "application-autoscaling:TagResource",
        "application-autoscaling:DeregisterScalableTarget"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:application-autoscaling:*:*:scalable-target/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationAutoscalingPolicyOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:DeleteScalingPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:application-autoscaling:*:*:scalable-target/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "application-autoscaling:service-namespace": "ecs"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationAutoscalingReadOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:application-autoscaling:*:*:scalable-target/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudWatchAlarmCreateOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "cloudwatch:TagResource"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudWatchAlarmOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ELBReadOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "VPCReadOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudWatchLogsCreateOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:TagResource"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonECSManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudWatchLogsReadOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v6, 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/service-role/AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices

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

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

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

Sources

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