AmazonEKSNetworkingPolicy

Summary

Policy attached to the EKS Cluster Role that grants permissions to manage the cluster's networking resources.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSNetworkingPolicyCopy ARN

Default version

v3

Created

2024-10-28

Last edited

2026-08-21

Services

ec2

Control-plane actions (11)

By access level: 1 Tagging, 10 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 11 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

• AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
• AIDevOpsReleaseManagementVPCPolicy
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneSageMakerProvisioningRolePolicy

Same domain

• AmazonBraketJobsExecutionPolicy
• AmazonDMSVPCManagementRole
• AmazonDRSVPCManagement
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverEKSClusterScopedPolicy
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicyV2
• AmazonEC2ContainerServiceRole
• AmazonEC2FullAccess

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": "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:eks-cluster-name": "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:kubernetes-cni-node-name": "*"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "aws:TagKeys": [
            "eks:eks-cluster-name",
            "eks:kubernetes-cni-node-name",
            "sgp.eks.amazonaws.com/instance-id",
            "sgp.eks.amazonaws.com/trunk-eni-id",
            "sgp.eks.amazonaws.com/vlan-id",
            "sgp.eks.amazonaws.com/managed",
            "sgp.eks.amazonaws.com/policy-ref"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateNetworkInterface"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses",
        "ec2:UnassignIpv6Addresses",
        "ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses",
        "ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/eks:eks-cluster-name": "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/eks:eks-cluster-name": "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AssociateTrunkInterface",
        "ec2:DisassociateTrunkInterface"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2026-08-21. 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/AmazonEKSNetworkingPolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSNetworkingPolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSNetworkingPolicy

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AmazonEKSNetworkingPolicy
• Report a data issue