AmazonMemoryDBReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon MemoryDB 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/AmazonMemoryDBReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2021-10-08
Last edited: 2021-10-08
Services: memorydb

Control-plane actions (18)

By access level: 18 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
MemoryDB	18 of 47	18 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	memorydb:Describe, memorydb:List

MemoryDB: 18 actions

memorydb:DescribeAcls (Read)
memorydb:DescribeClusters (Read)
memorydb:DescribeEngineVersions (Read)
memorydb:DescribeEvents (Read)
memorydb:DescribeMultiRegionClusters (Read)
memorydb:DescribeMultiRegionParameterGroups (Read)
memorydb:DescribeMultiRegionParameters (Read)
memorydb:DescribeParameterGroups (Read)
memorydb:DescribeParameters (Read)
memorydb:DescribeReservedNodes (Read)
memorydb:DescribeReservedNodesOfferings (Read)
memorydb:DescribeServiceUpdates (Read)
memorydb:DescribeSnapshots (Read)
memorydb:DescribeSubnetGroups (Read)
memorydb:DescribeUsers (Read)
memorydb:ListAllowedMultiRegionClusterUpdates (Read)
memorydb:ListAllowedNodeTypeUpdates (Read)
memorydb:ListTags (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

AmazonMemoryDBFullAccess

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": [
        "memorydb:Describe*",
        "memorydb:List*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2021-10-08. 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/AmazonMemoryDBReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMemoryDBReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMemoryDBReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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