AmazonGlacierReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon Glacier 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/AmazonGlacierReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2015-02-06
Last edited: 2016-05-05
Services: glacier

Control-plane actions (12)

By access level: 5 List, 7 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Glacier	12 of 33	5 List, 7 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	glacier:DescribeJob, glacier:DescribeVault, glacier:GetDataRetrievalPolicy, glacier:GetJobOutput, glacier:GetVaultAccessPolicy, glacier:GetVaultLock, glacier:GetVaultNotifications, glacier:ListJobs, glacier:ListMultipartUploads, glacier:ListParts, glacier:ListTagsForVault, glacier:ListVaults

Glacier: 12 actions

glacier:DescribeJob (Read)
glacier:DescribeVault (Read)
glacier:GetDataRetrievalPolicy (Read)
glacier:GetJobOutput (Read)
glacier:GetVaultAccessPolicy (Read)
glacier:GetVaultLock (Read)
glacier:GetVaultNotifications (Read)
glacier:ListJobs (List)
glacier:ListMultipartUploads (List)
glacier:ListParts (List)
glacier:ListTagsForVault (List)
glacier:ListVaults (List)

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: 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

AmazonGlacierFullAccess

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": [
        "glacier:DescribeJob",
        "glacier:DescribeVault",
        "glacier:GetDataRetrievalPolicy",
        "glacier:GetJobOutput",
        "glacier:GetVaultAccessPolicy",
        "glacier:GetVaultLock",
        "glacier:GetVaultNotifications",
        "glacier:ListJobs",
        "glacier:ListMultipartUploads",
        "glacier:ListParts",
        "glacier:ListTagsForVault",
        "glacier:ListVaults"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2016-05-05. 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/AmazonGlacierReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGlacierReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGlacierReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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