AmazonInspector2AgentlessServiceRolePolicy

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Summary

Grants Amazon Inspector access to AWS services needed to perform agent-less security assessments

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonInspector2AgentlessServiceRolePolicy
Default version: v2
Created: 2023-11-20
Last edited: 2026-08-20
Services: ebs, ec2, kms

Control-plane actions (9)

By access level: 4 List, 1 Read, 1 Tagging, 3 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	6 of 834	3 List, 1 Tagging, 2 Write; 3 restricted, 2 conditional	ec2:CreateSnapshots, ec2:CreateTags, ec2:DeleteSnapshot, ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeSnapshots, ec2:DescribeVolumes
KMS	3 of 58	1 List, 1 Read, 1 Write; 3 restricted, 2 conditional	kms:Decrypt, kms:DescribeKey, kms:ListResourceTags

EC2: 6 actions

ec2:CreateSnapshots (Write)
ec2:CreateTags (Tagging)
ec2:DeleteSnapshot (Write)
ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:DescribeSnapshots (List)
ec2:DescribeVolumes (List)

KMS: 3 actions

kms:Decrypt (Write)
kms:DescribeKey (Read)
kms:ListResourceTags (List)

Data-plane actions (2)

By access level: 2 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Elastic Block Store	2 of 4	2 Read; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	ebs:GetSnapshotBlock, ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks

Elastic Block Store: 2 actions

ebs:GetSnapshotBlock (Read)
ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks (Read)

Excluded and conditional actions

ec2:CreateSnapshots (deny-conditional, statement 3): 1 matching actions
kms:Decrypt (deny-conditional, statement 7): 1 matching actions

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

Can be attached: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 4 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.

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

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "InstanceIdentification",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "GetSnapshotData",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ebs:ListSnapshotBlocks",
        "ebs:GetSnapshotBlock"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/InspectorScan": "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateSnapshotsAnyInstanceOrVolume",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateSnapshots",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DenyCreateSnapshotsOnExcludedInstances",
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateSnapshots",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/InspectorEc2Exclusion": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateSnapshotsOnAnySnapshotOnlyWithTag",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateSnapshots",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "Null": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "false"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "InspectorScan"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateOnlyInspectorScanTagOnlyUsingCreateSnapshots",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateSnapshots"
        },
        "Null": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "false"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "InspectorScan"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DeleteOnlySnapshotsTaggedForScanning",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/InspectorScan": "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DenyKmsDecryptForExcludedKeys",
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": "kms:Decrypt",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/InspectorEc2Exclusion": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DecryptSnapshotBlocksVolContext",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:Decrypt",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "ec2.*.amazonaws.com",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:ebs:id": "vol-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DecryptSnapshotBlocksSnapContext",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:Decrypt",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "ec2.*.amazonaws.com",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:ebs:id": "snap-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeKeysForEbsOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:DescribeKey",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "ec2.*.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DecryptCrossAccountOrgVolContext",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:Decrypt",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceOrgID": "${aws:PrincipalOrgID}"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "ec2.*.amazonaws.com",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:ebs:id": "vol-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DecryptCrossAccountOrgSnapContext",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:Decrypt",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceOrgID": "${aws:PrincipalOrgID}"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "ec2.*.amazonaws.com",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:ebs:id": "snap-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeCrossAccountOrgKeysForEbsOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:DescribeKey",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceOrgID": "${aws:PrincipalOrgID}"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": "ec2.*.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ListKeyResourceTags",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:ListResourceTags",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2026-08-20. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

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