AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to use Amazon GuardDuty.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess
Default version: v9
Created: 2017-11-28
Last edited: 2026-02-12
Services: guardduty, iam, organizations

Control-plane actions (114)

By access level: 21 List, 33 Read, 2 Tagging, 58 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
GuardDuty	All 103 actions (see the GuardDuty page)	18 List, 29 Read, 2 Tagging, 54 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	guardduty:*
IAM	3 of 190	1 Read, 2 Write; 3 restricted, 2 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:GetRole, iam:PassRole
Organizations	8 of 63	3 List, 3 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	organizations:DescribeAccount, organizations:DescribeOrganization, organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit, organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess, organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization, organizations:ListAccounts, organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators, organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator

IAM: 3 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:PassRole (Write)

Organizations: 8 actions

organizations:DescribeAccount (Read)
organizations:DescribeOrganization (Read)
organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit (Read)
organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess (Write)
organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization (List)
organizations:ListAccounts (List)
organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators (List)
organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator (Write)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
GuardDuty	All 1 actions (see the GuardDuty page)	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	guardduty:*

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: guardduty (55 of 55).
Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonGuardDutyFullAccessSid1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "guardduty:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateServiceLinkedRoleSid1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": [
            "guardduty.amazonaws.com",
            "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ActionsForOrganizationsSid1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
        "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListAccounts"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "IamGetRoleSid1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:GetRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*AWSServiceRoleForAmazonGuardDutyMalwareProtection"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowPassRoleToMalwareProtection",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "malware-protection-plan.guardduty.amazonaws.com",
            "malware-protection.guardduty.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v9, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. 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/AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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