AmazonOpenSearchServiceRolePolicy

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Summary

Allow Amazon OpenSearch Service to access other AWS services such as EC2 Networking APIs on your behalf.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonOpenSearchServiceRolePolicy
Default version: v9
Created: 2021-08-26
Last edited: 2025-03-27
Services: acm, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, sso

Control-plane actions (19)

By access level: 6 List, 1 Read, 1 Tagging, 11 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Certificate Manager	1 of 42	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	acm:DescribeCertificate
EC2	15 of 834	6 List, 1 Tagging, 8 Write; 9 restricted, 1 conditional	ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses, ec2:CreateNetworkInterface, ec2:CreateTags, ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint, ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface, ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints, ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeTags, ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints, ec2:DescribeVpcs and 3 more
ELB	2 of 77	2 Write; 2 restricted, 0 conditional	elasticloadbalancing:AddListenerCertificates, elasticloadbalancing:RemoveListenerCertificates
IAM Identity Center	1 of 126	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	sso:PutApplicationAccessScope

Certificate Manager: 1 actions

acm:DescribeCertificate (Read)

EC2: 15 actions

ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses (Write)
ec2:CreateNetworkInterface (Write)
ec2:CreateTags (Tagging)
ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint (Write)
ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface (Write)
ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints (Write)
ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces (List)
ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeTags (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcs (List)
ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute (Write)
ec2:ModifyVpcEndpoint (Write)
ec2:UnassignIpv6Addresses (Write)

ELB: 2 actions

elasticloadbalancing:AddListenerCertificates (Write)
elasticloadbalancing:RemoveListenerCertificates (Write)

IAM Identity Center: 1 actions

sso:PutApplicationAccessScope (Write)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 5	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	cloudwatch:PutMetricData

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:PutMetricData (Write)

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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 13 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973134",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973145",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973144",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973165",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973149",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AssignIpv6Addresses"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973150",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:UnAssignIpv6Addresses"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973154",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973164",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973174",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973184",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddListenerCertificates",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RemoveListenerCertificates"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:listener/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973194",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973195",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973196",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:DescribeCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973197",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "cloudwatch:namespace": [
            "AWS/ES",
            "AWS/OpenSearch"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973198",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
        "ec2:ModifyVpcEndpoint"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:route-table/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973199",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:RequestTag/OpenSearchManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973200",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:ModifyVpcEndpoint",
        "ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/OpenSearchManaged": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973201",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Stmt1480452973202",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateVpcEndpoint"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "sso:PutApplicationAccessScope",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sso::*:application/*/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceOrgID": "${aws:PrincipalOrgID}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v9, edited by AWS on 2025-03-27. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.