AWSAccountActivityAccess

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Summary

Allows users to access the Account Activity page.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAccountActivityAccess
Default version: v3
Created: 2015-02-06
Last edited: 2026-02-20
Services: account, aws-portal, billing, payments

Control-plane actions (9)

By access level: 2 List, 7 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Account	5 of 20	1 List, 4 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	account:GetAccountInformation, account:GetAlternateContact, account:GetContactInformation, account:GetRegionOptStatus, account:ListRegions
Billing Console	1 of 9	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	aws-portal:ViewBilling
Billing	2 of 47	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	billing:GetIAMAccessPreference, billing:GetSellerOfRecord
Payments	1 of 28	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	payments:ListPaymentPreferences

Account: 5 actions

account:GetAccountInformation (Read)
account:GetAlternateContact (Read)
account:GetContactInformation (Read)
account:GetRegionOptStatus (Read)
account:ListRegions (List)

Billing Console: 1 actions

aws-portal:ViewBilling (Read)

Billing: 2 actions

billing:GetIAMAccessPreference (Read)
billing:GetSellerOfRecord (Read)

Payments: 1 actions

payments:ListPaymentPreferences (List)

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 only List and Read actions.

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": [
        "account:GetAccountInformation",
        "account:GetAlternateContact",
        "account:GetContactInformation",
        "account:GetRegionOptStatus",
        "account:ListRegions",
        "billing:GetIAMAccessPreference",
        "billing:GetSellerOfRecord",
        "payments:ListPaymentPreferences"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "aws-portal:ViewBilling"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2026-02-20. 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/AWSAccountActivityAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAccountActivityAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAccountActivityAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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