AmazonMSKReadOnlyAccess

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMSKReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2019-01-14
Last edited: 2019-01-14
Services: ec2, kafka, kms

Control-plane actions (34)

By access level: 19 List, 15 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	4 of 834	4 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcs
MSK	29 of 64	15 List, 14 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kafka:Describe, kafka:Get, kafka:List*
KMS	1 of 58	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kms:DescribeKey

EC2: 4 actions

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

MSK: 29 actions

kafka:DescribeChannel (Read)
kafka:DescribeCluster (Read)
kafka:DescribeClusterOperation (Read)
kafka:DescribeClusterOperationV2 (Read)
kafka:DescribeClusterV2 (Read)
kafka:DescribeConfiguration (Read)
kafka:DescribeConfigurationRevision (Read)
kafka:DescribeReplicator (Read)
kafka:DescribeTopic (Read)
kafka:DescribeTopicPartitions (Read)
kafka:DescribeVpcConnection (Read)
kafka:GetBootstrapBrokers (Read)
kafka:GetClusterPolicy (Read)
kafka:GetCompatibleKafkaVersions (List)
kafka:ListChannels (List)
kafka:ListClientVpcConnections (List)
kafka:ListClusterOperations (List)
kafka:ListClusterOperationsV2 (List)
kafka:ListClusters (List)
kafka:ListClustersV2 (List)
kafka:ListConfigurationRevisions (List)
kafka:ListConfigurations (List)
kafka:ListKafkaVersions (List)
kafka:ListNodes (List)
kafka:ListReplicators (List)
kafka:ListScramSecrets (List)
kafka:ListTagsForResource (Read)
kafka:ListTopics (List)
kafka:ListVpcConnections (List)

KMS: 1 actions

kms:DescribeKey (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

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Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "kafka:Describe*",
        "kafka:List*",
        "kafka:Get*",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "kms:DescribeKey"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2019-01-14. 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/AmazonMSKReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMSKReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonMSKReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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Summary