AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice

Summary

Provides access to other AWS service resources required to manage VPC Lattice feature in ECS workloads on your behalf.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLatticeCopy ARN

Default version

v2

Created

2024-11-15

Last edited

2026-09-29

Services

ec2, vpc-lattice

Control-plane actions (10)

By access level: 4 List, 2 Read, 4 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 4 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
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneSageMakerProvisioningRolePolicy

Same domain

• AmazonAPIGatewayAdministrator
• AmazonAPIGatewayInvokeFullAccess
• AmazonApplicationRecoveryControllerRegionSwitchPlanExecutionPolicy
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleForGatewayHostSharedALB
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForLoadBalancers
• 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": "ManagedVpcLatticeTargetRegistration",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "vpc-lattice:RegisterTargets",
        "vpc-lattice:DeregisterTargets"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:vpc-lattice:*:*:targetgroup/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeVpcLatticeTargetGroup",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "vpc-lattice:GetTargetGroup",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:vpc-lattice:*:*:targetgroup/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ListVpcLatticeTargets",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "vpc-lattice:ListTargets",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:vpc-lattice:*:*:targetgroup/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "GetRule",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "vpc-lattice:GetRule",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:vpc-lattice:*:*:service/*/listener/*/rule/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "UpdateRule",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "vpc-lattice:UpdateRule",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:vpc-lattice:*:*:service/*/listener/*/rule/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "UpdateListener",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "vpc-lattice:UpdateListener",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:vpc-lattice:*:*:service/*/listener/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeEc2Resources",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2026-09-29. 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/AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice

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

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

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

Sources

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• Official AWS reference for AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice
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