AmazonPrometheusFullAccess

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Summary

Grants full access to AWS Managed Prometheus resources

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonPrometheusFullAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2020-12-15
Last edited: 2023-11-26
Services: aps, ec2, eks, iam

Control-plane actions (65)

By access level: 6 List, 26 Read, 2 Tagging, 31 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
AMP	All 61 actions (see the AMP page)	4 List, 25 Read, 2 Tagging, 30 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	aps:*
EC2	2 of 834	2 List; 2 restricted, 2 conditional	ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets
EKS	1 of 74	1 Read; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	eks:DescribeCluster
IAM	1 of 190	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole

EC2: 2 actions

ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)

EKS: 1 actions

eks:DescribeCluster (Read)

IAM: 1 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)

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: aps (30 of 30).

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": "AllPrometheusActions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "aps:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeCluster",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "eks:DescribeCluster",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
          "aws:CalledVia": [
            "aps.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      },
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/scraper.aps.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonPrometheusScraper*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "scraper.aps.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2023-11-26. 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/AmazonPrometheusFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonPrometheusFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonPrometheusFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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