AmazonGrafanaAthenaAccess

Summary

This policy grants access to Amazon Athena and the dependencies needed to enable querying and writing results to s3 from the Amazon Athena plugin in Amazon Grafana.

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

Identity

ARN

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

Default version

v1

Created

2021-11-22

Last edited

2021-11-22

Services

athena, glue, s3

Control-plane actions (23)

By access level: 4 List, 1 Permissions management, 15 Read, 3 Write.

Data-plane actions (5)

By access level: 2 List, 1 Read, 2 Write.

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 5 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under 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

Same service

• AccessAnalyzerServiceRolePolicy
• AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
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• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonAthenaFullAccess
• AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonBraketJobsExecutionPolicy
• AmazonBraketServiceRolePolicy

Same domain

• AmazonChimeSDKMediaPipelinesServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonChimeSDKMessagingServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneDomainExecutionRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneFullAccess
• AmazonDataZoneFullUserAccess
• AmazonDataZoneGlueManageAccessRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary

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": [
        "athena:GetDatabase",
        "athena:GetDataCatalog",
        "athena:GetTableMetadata",
        "athena:ListDatabases",
        "athena:ListDataCatalogs",
        "athena:ListTableMetadata",
        "athena:ListWorkGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "athena:GetQueryExecution",
        "athena:GetQueryResults",
        "athena:GetWorkGroup",
        "athena:StartQueryExecution",
        "athena:StopQueryExecution"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "Null": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/GrafanaDataSource": "false"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "glue:GetDatabase",
        "glue:GetDatabases",
        "glue:GetTable",
        "glue:GetTables",
        "glue:GetPartition",
        "glue:GetPartitions",
        "glue:BatchGetPartition"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
        "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::grafana-athena-query-results-*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2021-11-22. 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/AmazonGrafanaAthenaAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaAthenaAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonGrafanaAthenaAccess

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AmazonGrafanaAthenaAccess
• Report a data issue