AmazonSecurityLakeMetastoreManager

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Summary

Policy for Amazon SecurityLake meta store manager lambda which allows the access to cloudwatch, S3, Glue and SQS.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSecurityLakeMetastoreManager
Default version: v2
Created: 2024-01-23
Last edited: 2024-04-01
Services: glue, logs, s3, sqs

Control-plane actions (10)

By access level: 3 Read, 7 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Glue	4 of 306	1 Read, 3 Write; 4 restricted, 4 conditional	glue:BatchCreatePartition, glue:CreatePartition, glue:GetTable, glue:UpdateTable
CloudWatch Logs	3 of 133	3 Write; 3 restricted, 3 conditional	logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, logs:PutLogEvents
SQS	3 of 20	2 Read, 1 Write; 3 restricted, 3 conditional	sqs:DeleteMessage, sqs:GetQueueAttributes, sqs:ReceiveMessage

Glue: 4 actions

glue:BatchCreatePartition (Write)
glue:CreatePartition (Write)
glue:GetTable (Read)
glue:UpdateTable (Write)

CloudWatch Logs: 3 actions

logs:CreateLogGroup (Write)
logs:CreateLogStream (Write)
logs:PutLogEvents (Write)

SQS: 3 actions

sqs:DeleteMessage (Write)
sqs:GetQueueAttributes (Read)
sqs:ReceiveMessage (Read)

Data-plane actions (4)

By access level: 1 List, 1 Read, 2 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
S3	4 of 25	1 List, 1 Read, 2 Write; 4 restricted, 4 conditional	s3:DeleteObject, s3:GetObject, s3:ListBucket, s3:PutObject

S3: 4 actions

s3:DeleteObject (Write)
s3:GetObject (Read)
s3:ListBucket (List)
s3:PutObject (Write)

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: scoped.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants 9 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.

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

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowWriteLambdaLogs",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:PutLogEvents",
        "logs:CreateLogGroup"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/lambda/AmazonSecurityLake*",
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:/aws/lambda/AmazonSecurityLake*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGlueManage",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "glue:CreatePartition",
        "glue:BatchCreatePartition",
        "glue:GetTable",
        "glue:UpdateTable"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:glue:*:*:table/amazon_security_lake_glue_db*/*",
        "arn:aws:glue:*:*:database/amazon_security_lake_glue_db*",
        "arn:aws:glue:*:*:catalog"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowToReadFromSqs",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sqs:ReceiveMessage",
        "sqs:DeleteMessage",
        "sqs:GetQueueAttributes"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sqs:*:*:AmazonSecurityLake*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowMetaDataReadWrite",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:GetObject"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::aws-security-data-lake*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowMetaDataCleanup",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:DeleteObject"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::aws-security-data-lake*/metadata/*.avro",
        "arn:aws:s3:::aws-security-data-lake*/metadata/*.metadata.json"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2024-04-01. 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/service-role/AmazonSecurityLakeMetastoreManager
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSecurityLakeMetastoreManager
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSecurityLakeMetastoreManager

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_amazonsecuritylakemetastoremanager" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSecurityLakeMetastoreManager"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AmazonSecurityLakeMetastoreManager"),
);

Sources

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