AmazonInspectorFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to Amazon Inspector.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonInspectorFullAccess
Default version: v5
Created: 2015-10-07
Last edited: 2017-12-21
Services: ec2, events, iam, inspector, sns

Control-plane actions (44)

By access level: 12 List, 14 Read, 1 Tagging, 17 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	2 of 834	2 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeTags
EventBridge	2 of 71	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	events:DescribeRule, events:ListRuleNamesByTarget
IAM	2 of 190	2 Write; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:PassRole
Inspector	All 37 actions (see the Inspector page)	8 List, 13 Read, 1 Tagging, 15 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	inspector:*
SNS	1 of 40	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sns:ListTopics

EC2: 2 actions

ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:DescribeTags (List)

EventBridge: 2 actions

events:DescribeRule (Read)
events:ListRuleNamesByTarget (List)

IAM: 2 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:PassRole (Write)

SNS: 1 actions

sns:ListTopics (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: 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: inspector (15 of 15).
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

AmazonInspectorReadOnlyAccess

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": [
        "inspector:*",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "events:DescribeRule",
        "events:ListRuleNamesByTarget"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "inspector.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/inspector.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonInspector",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "inspector.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v5, edited by AWS on 2017-12-21. 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/AmazonInspectorFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonInspectorFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonInspectorFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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