AmazonElasticMapReduceRole

Summary

This policy is on a deprecation path. See documentation for guidance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-managed-iam-policies.html. Default policy for the Amazon Elastic MapReduce service role.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonElasticMapReduceRoleCopy ARN

Default version

v10

Created

2015-02-06

Last edited

2020-06-24

Services

application-autoscaling, cloudwatch, ec2, iam, s3, sdb, sqs

Control-plane actions (141)

By access level: 40 List, 66 Read, 2 Tagging, 33 Write.

Data-plane actions (11)

By access level: 3 List, 8 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 35 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants iam:PassRole on all resources without conditions.

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

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• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy

Same domain

• AdministratorAccess
• AdministratorAccess-Amplify
• AIDevOpsAgentActionsPolicy
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccesswithDataPipeline
• AmazonEC2RoleforDataPipelineRole

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",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:CancelSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:CreateFleet",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DeleteTags",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkAcls",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribePrefixLists",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotPriceHistory",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServices",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:ModifyImageAttribute",
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:RequestSpotInstances",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances",
        "ec2:DeleteVolume",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumeStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DetachVolume",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "iam:ListInstanceProfiles",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",
        "iam:PassRole",
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:Get*",
        "s3:List*",
        "sdb:BatchPutAttributes",
        "sdb:Select",
        "sqs:CreateQueue",
        "sqs:Delete*",
        "sqs:GetQueue*",
        "sqs:PurgeQueue",
        "sqs:ReceiveMessage",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
        "application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget",
        "application-autoscaling:DeregisterScalableTarget",
        "application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:DeleteScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:Describe*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/spot.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForEC2Spot*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "spot.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v10, edited by AWS on 2020-06-24. 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/service-role/AmazonElasticMapReduceRole
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonElasticMapReduceRole
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonElasticMapReduceRole

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

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_amazonelasticmapreducerole" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonElasticMapReduceRole"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AmazonElasticMapReduceRole"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AmazonElasticMapReduceRole
• Report a data issue