AmazonMSKFullAccess

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Summary

Provide full access to Amazon MSK and other required permissions for its dependencies.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMSKFullAccess
Default version: v7
Created: 2019-01-14
Last edited: 2023-10-18
Services: ec2, firehose, iam, kafka, kms, logs, s3

Control-plane actions (87)

By access level: 24 List, 2 Permissions management, 17 Read, 4 Tagging, 40 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	9 of 834	6 List, 1 Tagging, 2 Write; 3 restricted, 2 conditional	ec2:CreateTags, ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint, ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints, ec2:DescribeRouteTables, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute, ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints, ec2:DescribeVpcs
Firehose	1 of 10	1 Tagging; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	firehose:TagDeliveryStream
IAM	2 of 190	2 Write; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:PassRole
MSK	All 64 actions (see the MSK page)	15 List, 14 Read, 2 Tagging, 33 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kafka:*
KMS	2 of 58	1 Permissions management, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kms:CreateGrant, kms:DescribeKey
CloudWatch Logs	8 of 133	3 List, 1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 3 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:CreateLogDelivery, logs:DeleteLogDelivery, logs:DescribeLogGroups, logs:DescribeResourcePolicies, logs:GetLogDelivery, logs:ListLogDeliveries, logs:PutResourcePolicy, logs:UpdateLogDelivery
S3	1 of 155	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	S3:GetBucketPolicy

EC2: 9 actions

ec2:CreateTags (Tagging)
ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint (Write)
ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints (Write)
ec2:DescribeRouteTables (List)
ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcs (List)

Firehose: 1 actions

firehose:TagDeliveryStream (Tagging)

IAM: 2 actions

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

KMS: 2 actions

kms:CreateGrant (Permissions management)
kms:DescribeKey (Read)

CloudWatch Logs: 8 actions

logs:CreateLogDelivery (Write)
logs:DeleteLogDelivery (Write)
logs:DescribeLogGroups (List)
logs:DescribeResourcePolicies (List)
logs:GetLogDelivery (Read)
logs:ListLogDeliveries (List)
logs:PutResourcePolicy (Permissions management)
logs:UpdateLogDelivery (Write)

S3: 1 actions

s3:GetBucketPolicy (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: 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: kafka (33 of 33).
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

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": [
        "kafka:*",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:CreateGrant",
        "logs:CreateLogDelivery",
        "logs:GetLogDelivery",
        "logs:UpdateLogDelivery",
        "logs:DeleteLogDelivery",
        "logs:ListLogDeliveries",
        "logs:PutResourcePolicy",
        "logs:DescribeResourcePolicies",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "S3:GetBucketPolicy",
        "firehose:TagDeliveryStream"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:vpc/*",
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:RequestTag/AWSMSKManaged": "true"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:RequestTag/ClusterArn": "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:*:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateVpcEndpoint"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:*:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/AWSMSKManaged": "true"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/ClusterArn": "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "kafka.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/kafka.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForKafka*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "kafka.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/delivery.logs.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForLogDelivery*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "delivery.logs.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v7, edited by AWS on 2023-10-18. 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/AmazonMSKFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMSKFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMSKFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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