AmazonElasticMapReduceReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon Elastic MapReduce 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/AmazonElasticMapReduceReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v3
Created: 2015-02-06
Last edited: 2020-07-29
Services: cloudwatch, elasticmapreduce, s3, sdb

Control-plane actions (30)

By access level: 13 List, 17 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EMR	28 of 88	12 List, 16 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	elasticmapreduce:Describe, elasticmapreduce:GetBlockPublicAccessConfiguration, elasticmapreduce:List, elasticmapreduce:ViewEventsFromAllClustersInConsole
S3	1 of 155	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:ListAllMyBuckets
SimpleDB	1 of 13	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sdb:Select

EMR: 28 actions

elasticmapreduce:DescribeCluster (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeEditor (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeJobFlows (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeNotebookExecution (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribePersistentAppUI (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeReleaseLabel (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeRepository (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeSecurityConfiguration (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeStep (Read)
elasticmapreduce:DescribeStudio (Read)
elasticmapreduce:GetBlockPublicAccessConfiguration (Read)
elasticmapreduce:ListBootstrapActions (Read)
elasticmapreduce:ListClusters (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListEditors (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListInstanceFleets (Read)
elasticmapreduce:ListInstanceGroups (Read)
elasticmapreduce:ListInstances (Read)
elasticmapreduce:ListNotebookExecutions (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListReleaseLabels (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListRepositories (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListSecurityConfigurations (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListSessions (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListSteps (Read)
elasticmapreduce:ListStudioSessionMappings (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListStudios (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListSupportedInstanceTypes (List)
elasticmapreduce:ListWorkspaceAccessIdentities (List)
elasticmapreduce:ViewEventsFromAllClustersInConsole (List)

S3: 1 actions

s3:ListAllMyBuckets (List)

SimpleDB: 1 actions

sdb:Select (Read)

Data-plane actions (3)

By access level: 1 List, 2 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:GetMetricStatistics
S3	2 of 25	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetObject, s3:ListBucket

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics (Read)

S3: 2 actions

s3:GetObject (Read)
s3:ListBucket (List)

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 only List and Read actions.

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": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "elasticmapreduce:Describe*",
        "elasticmapreduce:List*",
        "elasticmapreduce:GetBlockPublicAccessConfiguration",
        "elasticmapreduce:ViewEventsFromAllClustersInConsole",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "sdb:Select",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2020-07-29. 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/AmazonElasticMapReduceReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonElasticMapReduceReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonElasticMapReduceReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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