When should I attach AmazonSageMakerReadOnly?

The Amazon SageMaker AI Developer Guide says it grants read-only access to Amazon SageMaker AI resources through the console and SDK. Use it for people who only need to view SageMaker AI.

What does AmazonSageMakerReadOnly grant?

It allows sagemaker:Describe*, sagemaker:List* and a set of other read actions on all resources, plus read actions for Application Auto Scaling, CloudWatch alarms, Amazon Cognito user pools and Amazon ECR.

What are the security risks of AmazonSageMakerReadOnly?

The permissions are reads, but they include sagemaker:GetRecord, sagemaker:BatchGetRecord and cognito-idp:ListUsers 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.

AmazonSageMakerReadOnly

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Summary

Provides read only access to Amazon SageMaker AI via the AWS Management Console and SDK. The Amazon SageMaker AI Developer Guide says it grants read-only access to Amazon SageMaker AI resources.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSageMakerReadOnly
Default version: v11
Created: 2017-11-29
Last edited: 2021-12-01
Services: application-autoscaling, aws-marketplace, cloudwatch, cognito-idp, ecr, sagemaker

Control-plane actions (207)

By access level: 105 List, 102 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Application Auto Scaling	4 of 14	4 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets, application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities, application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies, application-autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions
Marketplace	1 of 97	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	aws-marketplace:ViewSubscriptions
CloudWatch	1 of 160	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms
Cognito User Pools	8 of 139	6 List, 2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cognito-idp:DescribeUserPool, cognito-idp:DescribeUserPoolClient, cognito-idp:ListGroups, cognito-idp:ListIdentityProviders, cognito-idp:ListUserPoolClients, cognito-idp:ListUserPools, cognito-idp:ListUsers, cognito-idp:ListUsersInGroup
Elastic Container Registry	9 of 65	2 List, 7 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ecr:Describe*
SageMaker	184 of 441	96 List, 88 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sagemaker:BatchDescribeModelPackage, sagemaker:BatchGetMetrics, sagemaker:Describe, sagemaker:GetDeviceFleetReport, sagemaker:GetDeviceRegistration, sagemaker:GetLineageGroupPolicy, sagemaker:GetModelPackageGroupPolicy, sagemaker:GetSearchSuggestions, sagemaker:List, sagemaker:QueryLineage, sagemaker:Search

Application Auto Scaling: 4 actions

application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets (Read)
application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities (Read)
application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies (Read)
application-autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions (Read)

Marketplace: 1 actions

aws-marketplace:ViewSubscriptions (List)

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms (Read)

Cognito User Pools: 8 actions

cognito-idp:DescribeUserPool (Read)
cognito-idp:DescribeUserPoolClient (Read)
cognito-idp:ListGroups (List)
cognito-idp:ListIdentityProviders (List)
cognito-idp:ListUserPoolClients (List)
cognito-idp:ListUserPools (List)
cognito-idp:ListUsers (List)
cognito-idp:ListUsersInGroup (List)

Elastic Container Registry: 9 actions

ecr:DescribeImageReplicationStatus (Read)
ecr:DescribeImageScanFindings (Read)
ecr:DescribeImageSigningStatus (Read)
ecr:DescribeImages (List)
ecr:DescribePullThroughCacheRules (List)
ecr:DescribeRegistry (Read)
ecr:DescribeReplicationBackfillResults (Read)
ecr:DescribeRepositories (Read)
ecr:DescribeRepositoryCreationTemplates (Read)

SageMaker: 184 actions

sagemaker:BatchDescribeModelPackage (Read)
sagemaker:BatchGetMetrics (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAIBenchmarkJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAIRecommendationJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAIWorkloadConfig (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAction (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAlgorithm (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeApp (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAppImageConfig (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeArtifact (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAutoMLJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeAutoMLJobV2 (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeCluster (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeClusterEvent (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeClusterInference (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeClusterNode (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeClusterSchedulerConfig (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeCodeRepository (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeCompilationJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeComputeQuota (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeContext (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeDataQualityJobDefinition (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeDevice (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeDeviceFleet (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeDomain (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeEdgeDeploymentPlan (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeEdgePackagingJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeEndpoint (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeEndpointConfig (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeExperiment (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeFeatureGroup (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeFeatureMetadata (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeFlowDefinition (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeHub (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeHubContent (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeHumanLoop (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeHumanTaskUi (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeHyperParameterTuningJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeImage (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeImageVersion (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeInferenceComponent (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeInferenceExperiment (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeInferenceRecommendationsJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeJobSchemaVersion (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeLabelingJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeLineageGroup (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeMlflowApp (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeMlflowTrackingServer (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModel (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModelBiasJobDefinition (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModelCard (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModelCardExportJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModelExplainabilityJobDefinition (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModelPackage (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModelPackageGroup (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeModelQualityJobDefinition (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeMonitoringSchedule (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeNotebookInstance (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeNotebookInstanceLifecycleConfig (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeOptimizationJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribePartnerApp (Read)
sagemaker:DescribePipeline (Read)
sagemaker:DescribePipelineDefinitionForExecution (Read)
sagemaker:DescribePipelineExecution (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeProcessingJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeProject (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeReservedCapacity (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeSharedModel (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeSpace (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeStudioLifecycleConfig (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeSubscribedWorkteam (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeTrainingJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeTrainingPlan (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeTrainingPlanExtensionHistory (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeTrainingSession (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeTransformJob (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeTrial (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeTrialComponent (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeUserProfile (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeWorkforce (Read)
sagemaker:DescribeWorkteam (Read)
sagemaker:GetDeviceFleetReport (Read)
sagemaker:GetDeviceRegistration (Read)
sagemaker:GetLineageGroupPolicy (Read)
sagemaker:GetModelPackageGroupPolicy (Read)
sagemaker:GetSearchSuggestions (Read)
sagemaker:ListAIBenchmarkJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListAIRecommendationJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListAIWorkloadConfigs (List)
sagemaker:ListActions (List)
sagemaker:ListAlgorithms (List)
sagemaker:ListAliases (List)
sagemaker:ListAppImageConfigs (List)
sagemaker:ListApps (List)
sagemaker:ListArtifacts (List)
sagemaker:ListAssociations (List)
sagemaker:ListAutoMLJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListCandidatesForAutoMLJob (List)
sagemaker:ListClusterEvents (List)
sagemaker:ListClusterNodes (List)
sagemaker:ListClusterSchedulerConfigs (List)
sagemaker:ListClusters (List)
sagemaker:ListCodeRepositories (List)
sagemaker:ListCompilationJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListComputeQuotas (List)
sagemaker:ListContexts (List)
sagemaker:ListDataQualityJobDefinitions (List)
sagemaker:ListDeviceFleets (List)
sagemaker:ListDevices (List)
sagemaker:ListDomains (List)
sagemaker:ListEdgeDeploymentPlans (List)
sagemaker:ListEdgePackagingJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListEndpointConfigs (List)
sagemaker:ListEndpoints (List)
sagemaker:ListExperiments (List)
sagemaker:ListFeatureGroups (List)
sagemaker:ListFlowDefinitions (List)
sagemaker:ListHubContentVersions (List)
sagemaker:ListHubContents (List)
sagemaker:ListHubs (List)
sagemaker:ListHumanLoops (List)
sagemaker:ListHumanTaskUis (List)
sagemaker:ListHyperParameterTuningJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListImageVersions (List)
sagemaker:ListImages (List)
sagemaker:ListInferenceComponents (List)
sagemaker:ListInferenceExperiments (List)
sagemaker:ListInferenceRecommendationsJobSteps (List)
sagemaker:ListInferenceRecommendationsJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListJobSchemaVersions (List)
sagemaker:ListJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListLabelingJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListLabelingJobsForWorkteam (List)
sagemaker:ListLineageGroups (List)
sagemaker:ListMlflowApps (List)
sagemaker:ListMlflowTrackingServers (List)
sagemaker:ListModelBiasJobDefinitions (List)
sagemaker:ListModelCardExportJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListModelCardVersions (List)
sagemaker:ListModelCards (List)
sagemaker:ListModelExplainabilityJobDefinitions (List)
sagemaker:ListModelMetadata (List)
sagemaker:ListModelPackageGroups (List)
sagemaker:ListModelPackages (List)
sagemaker:ListModelQualityJobDefinitions (List)
sagemaker:ListModels (List)
sagemaker:ListMonitoringAlertHistory (List)
sagemaker:ListMonitoringAlerts (List)
sagemaker:ListMonitoringExecutions (List)
sagemaker:ListMonitoringSchedules (List)
sagemaker:ListNotebookInstanceLifecycleConfigs (List)
sagemaker:ListNotebookInstances (List)
sagemaker:ListOptimizationJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListPartnerApps (List)
sagemaker:ListPipelineExecutionSteps (List)
sagemaker:ListPipelineExecutions (List)
sagemaker:ListPipelineParametersForExecution (List)
sagemaker:ListPipelineVersions (List)
sagemaker:ListPipelines (List)
sagemaker:ListProcessingJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListProjects (List)
sagemaker:ListResourceCatalogs (List)
sagemaker:ListSharedModelEvents (List)
sagemaker:ListSharedModelVersions (List)
sagemaker:ListSharedModels (List)
sagemaker:ListSpaces (List)
sagemaker:ListStageDevices (List)
sagemaker:ListStudioLifecycleConfigs (List)
sagemaker:ListSubscribedWorkteams (List)
sagemaker:ListTags (List)
sagemaker:ListTrainingJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListTrainingJobsForHyperParameterTuningJob (List)
sagemaker:ListTrainingPlans (List)
sagemaker:ListTrainingSessions (List)
sagemaker:ListTransformJobs (List)
sagemaker:ListTrialComponents (List)
sagemaker:ListTrials (List)
sagemaker:ListUltraServersByReservedCapacity (List)
sagemaker:ListUserProfiles (List)
sagemaker:ListWorkforces (List)
sagemaker:ListWorkteams (List)
sagemaker:QueryLineage (List)
sagemaker:Search (Read)

Data-plane actions (3)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
SageMaker	3 of 19	1 List, 2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sagemaker:BatchGetRecord, sagemaker:GetRecord, sagemaker:List*

SageMaker: 3 actions

sagemaker:BatchGetRecord (Read)
sagemaker:GetRecord (Read)
sagemaker:ListRecords (List)

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

Practical scope

One statement allows sagemaker:Describe*, sagemaker:List*, sagemaker:BatchGetMetrics, sagemaker:GetDeviceRegistration, sagemaker:GetDeviceFleetReport, sagemaker:GetSearchSuggestions, sagemaker:BatchGetRecord, sagemaker:GetRecord, sagemaker:Search, sagemaker:QueryLineage, sagemaker:GetLineageGroupPolicy, sagemaker:BatchDescribeModelPackage and sagemaker:GetModelPackageGroupPolicy on Resource "*". A second statement allows Application Auto Scaling describe actions, aws-marketplace:ViewSubscriptions, cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms, eight cognito-idp read actions (including cognito-idp:ListUsers and cognito-idp:ListUsersInGroup) and ecr:Describe*, all on Resource "*".

Use cases

View Amazon SageMaker AI resources from the console and SDK.

Best practices

AWS managed policies don't grant least privilege permissions. The IAM User Guide suggests using IAM Access Analyzer to see which permissions principals actually use, then writing a custom policy or generating one with only the required permissions.

Security considerations

The policy includes sagemaker:GetRecord, sagemaker:BatchGetRecord, sagemaker:Search and cognito-idp:ListUsers, all on Resource "*".
You cannot change the permissions in an AWS managed policy. If AWS updates the policy, the update affects every user, group and role it is attached to.

Assignment guidance

You can attach this policy to your users, groups and roles. The reference page also links to guidance on creating a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center. The Amazon SageMaker AI Developer Guide says you can attach it to users in your account. It fits where viewing SageMaker AI is the only requirement.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

When should I attach AmazonSageMakerReadOnly?: The Amazon SageMaker AI Developer Guide says it grants read-only access to Amazon SageMaker AI resources through the console and SDK. Use it for people who only need to view SageMaker AI.
What does AmazonSageMakerReadOnly grant?: It allows sagemaker:Describe*, sagemaker:List* and a set of other read actions on all resources, plus read actions for Application Auto Scaling, CloudWatch alarms, Amazon Cognito user pools and Amazon ECR.
What are the security risks of AmazonSageMakerReadOnly?: The permissions are reads, but they include sagemaker:GetRecord, sagemaker:BatchGetRecord and cognito-idp:ListUsers 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": [
        "sagemaker:Describe*",
        "sagemaker:List*",
        "sagemaker:BatchGetMetrics",
        "sagemaker:GetDeviceRegistration",
        "sagemaker:GetDeviceFleetReport",
        "sagemaker:GetSearchSuggestions",
        "sagemaker:BatchGetRecord",
        "sagemaker:GetRecord",
        "sagemaker:Search",
        "sagemaker:QueryLineage",
        "sagemaker:GetLineageGroupPolicy",
        "sagemaker:BatchDescribeModelPackage",
        "sagemaker:GetModelPackageGroupPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
        "aws-marketplace:ViewSubscriptions",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cognito-idp:DescribeUserPool",
        "cognito-idp:DescribeUserPoolClient",
        "cognito-idp:ListGroups",
        "cognito-idp:ListIdentityProviders",
        "cognito-idp:ListUserPoolClients",
        "cognito-idp:ListUserPools",
        "cognito-idp:ListUsers",
        "cognito-idp:ListUsersInGroup",
        "ecr:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v11, edited by AWS on 2021-12-01. 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/AmazonSageMakerReadOnly
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSageMakerReadOnly
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSageMakerReadOnly

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

AmazonSageMakerReadOnly (AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, practicalScope, useCases, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
AWS managed policies for Amazon SageMaker AI (Amazon SageMaker AI Developer Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-13; supports summary, practicalScope, useCases, 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)