AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read-only access to the Amazon EKS MCP service. This policy grants permissions to use only read-only tools in the EKS MCP service meant for observability, troubleshooting, retrieving EKS resource information, and getting EKS-optimized suggestions.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v3
Created: 2025-11-20
Last edited: 2026-02-12
Services: cloudwatch, ec2, eks, eks-mcp, iam, logs, sts

Control-plane actions (25)

By access level: 10 List, 15 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	3 of 834	3 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeRouteTables, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcs
EKS	11 of 74	5 List, 6 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	eks:AccessKubernetesApi, eks:DescribeAccessEntry, eks:DescribeAddon, eks:DescribeCluster, eks:DescribeInsight, eks:DescribeNodegroup, eks:ListAccessEntries, eks:ListAddons, eks:ListClusters, eks:ListInsights, eks:ListNodegroups
EKS MCP	2 of 3	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	eks-mcp:CallReadOnlyTool, eks-mcp:InvokeMcp
IAM	6 of 190	2 List, 4 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	iam:GetPolicy, iam:GetPolicyVersion, iam:GetRole, iam:GetRolePolicy, iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies, iam:ListRolePolicies
CloudWatch Logs	2 of 133	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:GetQueryResults, logs:StartQuery
STS	1 of 16	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sts:GetCallerIdentity

EC2: 3 actions

ec2:DescribeRouteTables (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcs (List)

EKS: 11 actions

eks:AccessKubernetesApi (Read)
eks:DescribeAccessEntry (Read)
eks:DescribeAddon (Read)
eks:DescribeCluster (Read)
eks:DescribeInsight (Read)
eks:DescribeNodegroup (Read)
eks:ListAccessEntries (List)
eks:ListAddons (List)
eks:ListClusters (List)
eks:ListInsights (List)
eks:ListNodegroups (List)

EKS MCP: 2 actions

eks-mcp:CallReadOnlyTool (Read)
eks-mcp:InvokeMcp (Read)

IAM: 6 actions

iam:GetPolicy (Read)
iam:GetPolicyVersion (Read)
iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:GetRolePolicy (Read)
iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies (List)
iam:ListRolePolicies (List)

CloudWatch Logs: 2 actions

logs:GetQueryResults (Read)
logs:StartQuery (Read)

STS: 1 actions

sts:GetCallerIdentity (Read)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 5	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:GetMetricData

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:GetMetricData (Read)

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 read access plus query or analysis actions that expose data.

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": [
        "eks:DescribeCluster",
        "eks:ListClusters",
        "eks:DescribeNodegroup",
        "eks:ListNodegroups",
        "eks:DescribeAddon",
        "eks:ListAddons",
        "eks:DescribeAccessEntry",
        "eks:ListAccessEntries",
        "eks:DescribeInsight",
        "eks:ListInsights",
        "eks:AccessKubernetesApi"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicyVersion"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sts:GetCallerIdentity"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:StartQuery",
        "logs:GetQueryResults"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "eks-mcp:InvokeMcp",
        "eks-mcp:CallReadOnlyTool"
      ],
      "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 CLI

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.