AutoScalingFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to Auto Scaling.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AutoScalingFullAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2017-01-12
Last edited: 2018-02-06
Services: autoscaling, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, iam

Control-plane actions (84)

By access level: 35 List, 2 Read, 2 Tagging, 45 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2 Auto Scaling	All 68 actions (see the EC2 Auto Scaling page)	22 List, 1 Read, 2 Tagging, 43 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	autoscaling:*
CloudWatch	1 of 160	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm
EC2	12 of 834	12 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes, ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones, ec2:DescribeImages, ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute, ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeKeyPairs, ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions, ec2:DescribePlacementGroups, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink
ELB	2 of 77	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups
IAM	1 of 190	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm (Write)

EC2: 12 actions

ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes (List)
ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones (List)
ec2:DescribeImages (List)
ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute (List)
ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:DescribeKeyPairs (List)
ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions (List)
ec2:DescribePlacementGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink (List)

ELB: 2 actions

elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers (List)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups (Read)

IAM: 1 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: autoscaling (43 of 43).

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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "autoscaling:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:DescribePlacementGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "autoscaling.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2018-02-06. 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/AutoScalingFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AutoScalingFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AutoScalingFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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