AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess

Summary

Provides full access to Amazon ElastiCache via the AWS Management Console.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonElastiCacheFullAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v3

Created

2015-02-06

Last edited

2023-11-28

Services

application-autoscaling, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticache, firehose, iam, kms, logs, outposts, s3, sns

Control-plane actions (95)

By access level: 30 List, 6 Read, 3 Tagging, 56 Write.

Data-plane actions (2)

By access level: 2 Read.

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: elasticache (54 of 54).
• 2 granted write or permissions-management actions have no data-plane classification from AWS, so the data-plane rule cannot assess them.

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

• AmazonElastiCacheReadOnlyAccess
• AWSApplicationAutoscalingElastiCacheRGPolicy
• DatabaseAdministrator

Same domain

• AmazonAuroraDSQLConsoleFullAccess
• AmazonAuroraDSQLFullAccess
• AmazonAuroraDSQLReadOnlyAccess
• AmazonDocDBConsoleFullAccess
• AmazonDocDBElasticFullAccess
• AmazonDocDBElasticReadOnlyAccess
• AmazonDocDBFullAccess
• AmazonDocDBReadOnlyAccess

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": "ElastiCacheManagementActions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "elasticache:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/elasticache.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForElastiCache",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "elasticache.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateVPCEndpoints",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:VpceServiceName": "com.amazonaws.elasticache.serverless.*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAccessToElastiCacheTaggedVpcEndpoints",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "NotResource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "TagVPCEndpointsOnCreation",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateVpcEndpoint",
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonElastiCacheManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAccessToEc2",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAccessToKMS",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:ListAliases",
        "kms:ListKeys"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAccessToCloudWatch",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAccessToAutoScaling",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeLogGroups",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ListLogDeliveryStreams",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "firehose:ListDeliveryStreams"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeS3Buckets",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAccessToOutposts",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "outposts:ListOutposts"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAccessToSNS",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sns:ListTopics"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2023-11-28. 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/AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess
• Report a data issue