AmazonKendraFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to Amazon Kendra via the AWS Management Console.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKendraFullAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2019-12-03
Last edited: 2019-12-03
Services: cloudwatch, ec2, iam, kendra, kms, s3, secretsmanager

Control-plane actions (79)

By access level: 20 List, 19 Read, 2 Tagging, 38 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	3 of 834	3 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcs
IAM	2 of 190	1 List, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:ListRoles, iam:PassRole
Kendra	All 66 actions (see the Kendra page)	12 List, 16 Read, 2 Tagging, 36 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kendra:*
KMS	3 of 58	2 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kms:DescribeKey, kms:ListAliases, kms:ListKeys
S3	2 of 155	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetBucketLocation, s3:ListAllMyBuckets
Secrets Manager	3 of 27	1 List, 1 Read, 1 Write; 2 restricted, 0 conditional	secretsmanager:CreateSecret, secretsmanager:DescribeSecret, secretsmanager:ListSecrets

EC2: 3 actions

ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcs (List)

IAM: 2 actions

iam:ListRoles (List)
iam:PassRole (Write)

KMS: 3 actions

kms:DescribeKey (Read)
kms:ListAliases (List)
kms:ListKeys (List)

S3: 2 actions

s3:GetBucketLocation (Read)
s3:ListAllMyBuckets (List)

Secrets Manager: 3 actions

secretsmanager:CreateSecret (Write)
secretsmanager:DescribeSecret (Read)
secretsmanager:ListSecrets (List)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 5	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:GetMetricData

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:GetMetricData (Read)

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: kendra (36 of 36).
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

AmazonKendraReadOnlyAccess

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": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "kendra.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:ListKeys",
        "kms:ListAliases",
        "kms:DescribeKey"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "secretsmanager:ListSecrets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "secretsmanager:CreateSecret",
        "secretsmanager:DescribeSecret"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:AmazonKendra-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kendra:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2019-12-03. 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/AmazonKendraFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKendraFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKendraFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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