AmazonKendraReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only 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/AmazonKendraReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2019-12-03
Last edited: 2021-05-27
Services: kendra

Control-plane actions (25)

By access level: 12 List, 13 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Kendra	25 of 66	12 List, 13 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kendra:Describe, kendra:GetQuerySuggestions, kendra:List, kendra:Query

Kendra: 25 actions

kendra:DescribeAccessControlConfiguration (Read)
kendra:DescribeDataSource (Read)
kendra:DescribeExperience (Read)
kendra:DescribeFaq (Read)
kendra:DescribeFeaturedResultsSet (Read)
kendra:DescribeIndex (Read)
kendra:DescribePrincipalMapping (Read)
kendra:DescribeQuerySuggestionsBlockList (Read)
kendra:DescribeQuerySuggestionsConfig (Read)
kendra:DescribeThesaurus (Read)
kendra:GetQuerySuggestions (Read)
kendra:ListAccessControlConfigurations (List)
kendra:ListDataSourceSyncJobs (List)
kendra:ListDataSources (List)
kendra:ListEntityPersonas (List)
kendra:ListExperienceEntities (List)
kendra:ListExperiences (List)
kendra:ListFaqs (List)
kendra:ListFeaturedResultsSets (List)
kendra:ListGroupsOlderThanOrderingId (List)
kendra:ListIndices (List)
kendra:ListQuerySuggestionsBlockLists (List)
kendra:ListTagsForResource (Read)
kendra:ListThesauri (List)
kendra:Query (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

AmazonKendraFullAccess

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": [
        "kendra:Describe*",
        "kendra:List*",
        "kendra:Query",
        "kendra:GetQuerySuggestions"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2021-05-27. 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/AmazonKendraReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKendraReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKendraReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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