AmazonSSMServiceRolePolicy

Summary

Provides access to AWS Resources managed or used by Amazon SSM

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonSSMServiceRolePolicyCopy ARN

Default version

v17

Created

2017-11-13

Last edited

2026-06-26

Services

cloudformation, cloudwatch, compute-optimizer, config, ec2, events, iam, lambda, organizations, resource-explorer-2, resource-groups, securityhub, ssm, states, support, tag

Control-plane actions (52)

By access level: 16 List, 21 Read, 15 Write.

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

• Grants 16 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).
• 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.

Related policies

Same service

• AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
• AIDevOpsOrganizationsAccessPolicy
• AIOpsOperatorAccess
• AmazonDataZoneRedshiftGlueProvisioningPolicy
• AmazonEC2ImageReferencesAccessPolicy
• AmazonEC2RoleforSSM
• AmazonEKSConnectorServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonEKSLocalOutpostClusterPolicy

Same domain

• AccountAccessManagerServiceRolePolicy
• AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy
• AmazonCloudWatchEvidentlyServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonCodeCatalystSupportAccess
• AmazonDetectiveOrganizationsAccess
• AmazonDetectiveServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonDevOpsGuruOrganizationsAccess
• AmazonDevOpsGuruServiceRolePolicy

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:CancelCommand",
        "ssm:GetCommandInvocation",
        "ssm:ListCommandInvocations",
        "ssm:ListCommands",
        "ssm:SendCommand",
        "ssm:GetAutomationExecution",
        "ssm:GetParameters",
        "ssm:StartAutomationExecution",
        "ssm:StopAutomationExecution",
        "ssm:ListTagsForResource",
        "ssm:GetCalendarState",
        "ssm:ListCloudConnectors"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:PutInventory"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "ssm:InventoryTypeName": [
            "AWS:ComplianceItem",
            "AWS:PatchSummary"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:UpdateServiceSetting",
        "ssm:GetServiceSetting"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsitem/*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsdata/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances"
      ],
      "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-groups:GetGroupQuery"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "config:SelectResourceConfig"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "compute-optimizer:GetEC2InstanceRecommendations",
        "compute-optimizer:GetEnrollmentStatus"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorChecks",
        "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckSummaries",
        "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckResult",
        "support:DescribeCases"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "config:DescribeComplianceByConfigRule",
        "config:DescribeComplianceByResource",
        "config:DescribeRemediationConfigurations",
        "config:DescribeConfigurationRecorders"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "ssm.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudformation:ListStackSets",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:ListStackInstances",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackSetOperation",
        "cloudformation:DeleteStackSet"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stackset/AWS-QuickSetup-SSM*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudformation:DeleteStackInstances",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stackset/AWS-QuickSetup-SSM*:*",
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stackset-target/AWS-QuickSetup-SSM*:*",
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:type/resource/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:PutTargets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "events:ManagedBy": "ssm.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "events:RemoveTargets",
        "events:DeleteRule"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:events:*:*:rule/SSMExplorerManagedRule"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "events:DescribeRule",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "securityhub:DescribeHub",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "resource-explorer-2:CreateManagedView",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*:*:managed-view/AWSManagedViewForSSM*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v17, edited by AWS on 2026-06-26. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AmazonSSMServiceRolePolicy
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