AmazonHealthLakeReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon HealthLake service.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonHealthLakeReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2021-02-17
Last edited: 2026-08-04
Services: healthlake

Control-plane actions (14)

By access level: 4 List, 10 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
HealthLake	14 of 68	4 List, 10 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	healthlake:DescribeDataTransformationJob, healthlake:DescribeFHIRDatastore, healthlake:DescribeFHIRExportJob, healthlake:DescribeFHIRImportJob, healthlake:GetCapabilities, healthlake:GetDataTransformationProfile, healthlake:ListDataTransformationJobs, healthlake:ListDataTransformationProfileVersions, healthlake:ListDataTransformationProfiles, healthlake:ListFHIRDatastores, healthlake:ReadResource, healthlake:SearchWithGet and 2 more

HealthLake: 14 actions

healthlake:DescribeDataTransformationJob (Read)
healthlake:DescribeFHIRDatastore (Read)
healthlake:DescribeFHIRExportJob (Read)
healthlake:DescribeFHIRImportJob (Read)
healthlake:GetCapabilities (Read)
healthlake:GetDataTransformationProfile (Read)
healthlake:ListDataTransformationJobs (List)
healthlake:ListDataTransformationProfileVersions (List)
healthlake:ListDataTransformationProfiles (List)
healthlake:ListFHIRDatastores (List)
healthlake:ReadResource (Read)
healthlake:SearchWithGet (Read)
healthlake:SearchWithPost (Read)
healthlake:ValidateSource (Read)

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

AmazonHealthLakeFullAccess

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": [
        "healthlake:ListFHIRDatastores",
        "healthlake:DescribeFHIRDatastore",
        "healthlake:DescribeFHIRImportJob",
        "healthlake:DescribeFHIRExportJob",
        "healthlake:GetCapabilities",
        "healthlake:ReadResource",
        "healthlake:SearchWithGet",
        "healthlake:SearchWithPost",
        "healthlake:GetDataTransformationProfile",
        "healthlake:ListDataTransformationProfiles",
        "healthlake:ListDataTransformationProfileVersions",
        "healthlake:DescribeDataTransformationJob",
        "healthlake:ListDataTransformationJobs",
        "healthlake:ValidateSource"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2026-08-04. 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/AmazonHealthLakeReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonHealthLakeReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonHealthLakeReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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