AmazonSSMMaintenanceWindowRole

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Summary

Service Role to be used for EC2 Maintenance Window

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSSMMaintenanceWindowRole
Default version: v3
Created: 2016-12-01
Last edited: 2019-07-27
Services: lambda, resource-groups, ssm, states, tag

Control-plane actions (10)

By access level: 3 List, 4 Read, 3 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Resource Groups	2 of 29	2 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	resource-groups:ListGroupResources, resource-groups:ListGroups
Systems Manager	5 of 164	1 List, 2 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ssm:GetAutomationExecution, ssm:GetParameters, ssm:ListCommands, ssm:SendCommand, ssm:StartAutomationExecution
Step Functions	2 of 37	1 Read, 1 Write; 2 restricted, 0 conditional	states:DescribeExecution, states:StartExecution
Resource Group Tagging	1 of 9	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	tag:GetResources

Resource Groups: 2 actions

resource-groups:ListGroupResources (List)
resource-groups:ListGroups (List)

Systems Manager: 5 actions

ssm:GetAutomationExecution (Read)
ssm:GetParameters (Read)
ssm:ListCommands (List)
ssm:SendCommand (Write)
ssm:StartAutomationExecution (Write)

Step Functions: 2 actions

states:DescribeExecution (Read)
states:StartExecution (Write)

Resource Group Tagging: 1 actions

tag:GetResources (Read)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Lambda	1 of 14	1 Write; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	lambda:InvokeFunction

Lambda: 1 actions

lambda:InvokeFunction (Write)

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 4 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
Can read secret values or decrypt data. Reads are not a High privilege rule.

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": [
        "ssm:GetAutomationExecution",
        "ssm:GetParameters",
        "ssm:ListCommands",
        "ssm:SendCommand",
        "ssm:StartAutomationExecution"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "lambda:InvokeFunction"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:SSM*",
        "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:*:SSM*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "states:DescribeExecution",
        "states:StartExecution"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:states:*:*:stateMachine:SSM*",
        "arn:aws:states:*:*:execution:SSM*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "resource-groups:ListGroups",
        "resource-groups:ListGroupResources"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2019-07-27. 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/AmazonSSMMaintenanceWindowRole
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSSMMaintenanceWindowRole
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSSMMaintenanceWindowRole

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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