AmazonEKSServicePolicy

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Summary

This policy allows Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes to create and manage the necessary resources to operate EKS Clusters.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSServicePolicy
Default version: v7
Created: 2018-05-27
Last edited: 2024-10-14
Services: ec2, eks, iam, logs, route53

Control-plane actions (21)

By access level: 7 List, 1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 2 Tagging, 10 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	13 of 834	5 List, 1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 2 Tagging, 4 Write; 2 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:CreateNetworkInterface, ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission, ec2:CreateTags, ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface, ec2:DeleteTags, ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcs, ec2:DetachNetworkInterface, ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc and 1 more
EKS	1 of 74	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	eks:UpdateClusterVersion
IAM	2 of 190	1 List, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies
CloudWatch Logs	4 of 133	1 List, 3 Write; 3 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, logs:DescribeLogStreams, logs:PutLogEvents
Route 53	1 of 71	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	route53:AssociateVPCWithHostedZone

EC2: 13 actions

ec2:CreateNetworkInterface (Write)
ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission (Permissions management)
ec2:CreateTags (Tagging)
ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface (Write)
ec2:DeleteTags (Tagging)
ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces (List)
ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcs (List)
ec2:DetachNetworkInterface (Write)
ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc (Read)
ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute (Write)

EKS: 1 actions

eks:UpdateClusterVersion (Write)

IAM: 2 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies (List)

CloudWatch Logs: 4 actions

logs:CreateLogGroup (Write)
logs:CreateLogStream (Write)
logs:DescribeLogStreams (List)
logs:PutLogEvents (Write)

Route 53: 1 actions

route53:AssociateVPCWithHostedZone (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 13 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.

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": [
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "eks:UpdateClusterVersion",
        "ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:RequestTag/Name": "eks-cluster-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "route53:AssociateVPCWithHostedZone",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "logs:CreateLogGroup",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/eks/*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "logs:PutLogEvents",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/eks/*:*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "eks.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v7, edited by AWS on 2024-10-14. 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/AmazonEKSServicePolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSServicePolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSServicePolicy

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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