AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon GuardDuty resources

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v4
Created: 2017-11-28
Last edited: 2023-11-16
Services: guardduty, organizations

Control-plane actions (53)

By access level: 21 List, 32 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
GuardDuty	47 of 103	18 List, 29 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	guardduty:Describe, guardduty:Get, guardduty:List*
Organizations	6 of 63	3 List, 3 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	organizations:DescribeAccount, organizations:DescribeOrganization, organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit, organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization, organizations:ListAccounts, organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators

GuardDuty: 47 actions

guardduty:DescribeMalwareScans (Read)
guardduty:DescribeOrganizationConfiguration (Read)
guardduty:DescribePublishingDestination (Read)
guardduty:GetAdministratorAccount (Read)
guardduty:GetCoverageStatistics (Read)
guardduty:GetCustomDetectionRule (Read)
guardduty:GetCustomDetectionRuleAssociation (Read)
guardduty:GetCustomDetectionRuleOrgConfiguration (Read)
guardduty:GetDetector (Read)
guardduty:GetFilter (Read)
guardduty:GetFindings (Read)
guardduty:GetFindingsStatistics (Read)
guardduty:GetIPSet (Read)
guardduty:GetInvestigation (Read)
guardduty:GetInvitationsCount (Read)
guardduty:GetMalwareProtectionPlan (Read)
guardduty:GetMalwareScan (Read)
guardduty:GetMalwareScanSettings (Read)
guardduty:GetMasterAccount (Read)
guardduty:GetMemberDetectors (Read)
guardduty:GetMembers (Read)
guardduty:GetOrganizationStatistics (Read)
guardduty:GetRemainingFreeTrialDays (Read)
guardduty:GetThreatEntitySet (Read)
guardduty:GetThreatIntelSet (Read)
guardduty:GetTrustedEntitySet (Read)
guardduty:GetUsageStatistics (Read)
guardduty:ListCoverage (List)
guardduty:ListCustomDetectionRuleAssociations (List)
guardduty:ListCustomDetectionRuleOrgConfigurations (List)
guardduty:ListCustomDetectionRules (List)
guardduty:ListDetectors (List)
guardduty:ListFilters (List)
guardduty:ListFindings (List)
guardduty:ListIPSets (List)
guardduty:ListInvestigationRecords (Read)
guardduty:ListInvestigations (List)
guardduty:ListInvitations (List)
guardduty:ListMalwareProtectionPlans (List)
guardduty:ListMalwareScans (List)
guardduty:ListMembers (List)
guardduty:ListOrganizationAdminAccounts (List)
guardduty:ListPublishingDestinations (List)
guardduty:ListTagsForResource (Read)
guardduty:ListThreatEntitySets (List)
guardduty:ListThreatIntelSets (List)
guardduty:ListTrustedEntitySets (List)

Organizations: 6 actions

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

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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "guardduty:Describe*",
        "guardduty:Get*",
        "guardduty:List*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListAccounts"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2023-11-16. 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/AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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