AmazonRoute53FullAccess

Summary

Provides full access to all Amazon Route 53 via the AWS Management Console, as the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide describes it.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections reviewed against the listed AWS sources.

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRoute53FullAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v8

Created

2015-02-06

Last edited

2026-10-08

Services

apigateway, cloudfront, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticbeanstalk, elasticloadbalancing, es, iam, lightsail, route53, route53domains, s3, sns, tag

Control-plane actions (126)

By access level: 35 List, 33 Read, 3 Tagging, 55 Write.

Data-plane actions (3)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Read.

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: route53 (32 of 32), route53domains (22 of 22).

Guidance

Related policies

Same service

• AmazonECSServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonRoute53AutoNamingFullAccess
• AmazonRoute53AutoNamingRegistrantAccess
• AmazonRoute53DomainsFullAccess
• AmazonRoute53DomainsReadOnlyAccess
• AmazonRoute53ReadOnlyAccess
• AWSCloudMapFullAccess
• AWSCloudMapRegisterInstanceAccess

Same domain

• AmazonAPIGatewayAdministrator
• AmazonAPIGatewayInvokeFullAccess
• AmazonApplicationRecoveryControllerRegionSwitchPlanExecutionPolicy
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleForGatewayHostSharedALB
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForLoadBalancers
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice
• AmazonEKSClusterPolicy

Frequently asked questions

When should I attach AmazonRoute53FullAccess?

The reference page describes it as full access to all Amazon Route 53 via the AWS Management Console, and says you can attach it to users, groups and roles. Attach it where that scope is intended.

What does AmazonRoute53FullAccess grant?

It allows route53:* and route53domains:* on all resources, a set of read actions for CloudFront, CloudWatch, EC2, load balancing, Elastic Beanstalk, OpenSearch, Lightsail, S3, SNS and tagging, apigateway:GET on custom domain names, and creating a service-linked role for route53healthchecks.amazonaws.com.

What are the security risks of AmazonRoute53FullAccess?

route53:* and route53domains:* allow every action in both services on all resources. AWS managed policies do not grant least privilege permissions, and an AWS update to the policy affects every identity it is attached to.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "route53:*",
        "route53domains:*",
        "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
        "cloudfront:GetDistributionTenantByDomain",
        "cloudfront:GetConnectionGroup",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
        "es:ListDomainNames",
        "es:DescribeDomains",
        "lightsail:GetContainerServices",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetBucketWebsite",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "apigateway:GET",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:apigateway:*::/domainnames"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "route53healthchecks.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v8, edited by AWS on 2026-10-08. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRoute53FullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRoute53FullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRoute53FullAccess

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRoute53FullAccess

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "amazonroute53fullaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonRoute53FullAccess"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AmazonRoute53FullAccess"),
);

Sources

• AmazonRoute53FullAccess (AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, practicalScope, useCases, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• AWS managed policies for job functions (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports bestPractices, faqs)
• Managed policies and inline policies (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports securityConsiderations, faqs)

• Official AWS reference for AmazonRoute53FullAccess
• Report a data issue