AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon S3 on Outposts via the AWS Management Console.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2020-10-02
Last edited: 2020-10-02
Services: datasync, ec2, outposts, s3-outposts

Control-plane actions (42)

By access level: 16 List, 26 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
DataSync	14 of 66	2 List, 12 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	datasync:DescribeLocation*, datasync:DescribeTask, datasync:ListLocations, datasync:ListTasks
EC2	4 of 834	4 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcs
Outposts	2 of 44	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	outposts:GetOutpost, outposts:ListOutposts
S3 Outposts	22 of 48	9 List, 13 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3-outposts:Get, s3-outposts:List

DataSync: 14 actions

datasync:DescribeLocationAzureBlob (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationEfs (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationFsxLustre (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationFsxOntap (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationFsxOpenZfs (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationFsxWindows (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationHdfs (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationNfs (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationObjectStorage (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationS3 (Read)
datasync:DescribeLocationSmb (Read)
datasync:DescribeTask (Read)
datasync:ListLocations (List)
datasync:ListTasks (List)

EC2: 4 actions

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

Outposts: 2 actions

outposts:GetOutpost (Read)
outposts:ListOutposts (List)

S3 Outposts: 22 actions

s3-outposts:GetAccessPoint (Read)
s3-outposts:GetAccessPointPolicy (Read)
s3-outposts:GetBucket (Read)
s3-outposts:GetBucketPolicy (Read)
s3-outposts:GetBucketTagging (Read)
s3-outposts:GetBucketVersioning (Read)
s3-outposts:GetLifecycleConfiguration (Read)
s3-outposts:GetObject (Read)
s3-outposts:GetObjectTagging (Read)
s3-outposts:GetObjectVersion (Read)
s3-outposts:GetObjectVersionForReplication (Read)
s3-outposts:GetObjectVersionTagging (Read)
s3-outposts:GetReplicationConfiguration (Read)
s3-outposts:ListAccessPoints (List)
s3-outposts:ListBucket (List)
s3-outposts:ListBucketMultipartUploads (List)
s3-outposts:ListBucketVersions (List)
s3-outposts:ListEndpoints (List)
s3-outposts:ListMultipartUploadParts (List)
s3-outposts:ListOutpostsWithS3 (List)
s3-outposts:ListRegionalBuckets (List)
s3-outposts:ListSharedEndpoints (List)

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

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": [
        "s3-outposts:Get*",
        "s3-outposts:List*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "datasync:ListTasks",
        "datasync:ListLocations",
        "datasync:DescribeTask",
        "datasync:DescribeLocation*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "outposts:ListOutposts",
        "outposts:GetOutpost"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2020-10-02. 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/AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "amazons3outpostsreadonlyaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AmazonS3OutpostsReadOnlyAccess"),
);

Sources

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