AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess

Summary

Provides full access to Amazon Keyspaces. The Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Developer Guide says it grants administrative permissions that allow administrators unrestricted access to Amazon Keyspaces.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections reviewed against the listed AWS sources.

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKeyspacesFullAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v8

Created

2020-04-23

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

application-autoscaling, cassandra, cloudwatch, ec2, iam, kms

Control-plane actions (37)

By access level: 4 List, 9 Read, 4 Tagging, 20 Write.

Data-plane actions (3)

By access level: 3 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: application-autoscaling (6 of 6), cassandra (11 of 11).
• 7 granted write or permissions-management actions have no data-plane classification from AWS, so the data-plane rule cannot assess them.

Guidance

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Frequently asked questions

When should I attach AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess?

The Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Developer Guide says it grants administrative permissions for unrestricted access to Amazon Keyspaces, so attach it to administrators who need that. If a narrower scope is enough, AWS recommends customer managed policies specific to your use cases.

What does AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess grant?

It allows cassandra:* on all resources, Application Auto Scaling actions to create, view and delete scaling policies and scheduled actions for tables, CloudWatch alarm and metric-data actions, kms:DescribeKey and kms:ListAliases, read-only EC2 VPC endpoint and network interface lookups, and creating the service-linked roles for automatic scaling, multi-Region replication and CDC streams.

What are the security risks of AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess?

cassandra:* allows every Amazon Keyspaces action on all resources, which the Developer Guide describes as unrestricted access. AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your use case, and AWS updates to the policy affect every identity it is attached to.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "CassandraFullAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cassandra:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationAutoscalingFullAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:DeleteScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:DeleteScheduledAction",
        "application-autoscaling:DeregisterScalableTarget",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
        "application-autoscaling:PutScheduledAction",
        "application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget",
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:ListAliases"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CloudwatchAlarmsFullAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ApplicationAutoscalingServiceLinkedRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/cassandra.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationAutoScaling_CassandraTable",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "cassandra.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "KeyspacesReplicationServiceLinkedRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/replication.cassandra.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForKeyspacesReplication",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "replication.cassandra.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "KeyspacesCDCServiceLinkedRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/cassandra-streams.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonKeyspacesCDC",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "cassandra-streams.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Ec2VpcReadAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v8, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess

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

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

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

Sources

• AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess (AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, practicalScope, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• AWS managed policies for Amazon Keyspaces (Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Developer Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, useCases, bestPractices, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• AWS managed policies for job functions (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports bestPractices, faqs)
• Managed policies and inline policies (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports securityConsiderations, faqs)

• Official AWS reference for AmazonKeyspacesFullAccess
• AWS service guide
• Report a data issue