AWSAgentlessDiscoveryService

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Summary

Provides access for the Discovery Agentless Connector to register with AWS Application Discovery Service.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAgentlessDiscoveryService
Default version: v2
Created: 2016-08-02
Last edited: 2020-02-24
Services: arsenal, awsconnector, discovery, iam, mgh, s3, sns

Control-plane actions (34)

By access level: 3 List, 12 Read, 2 Tagging, 17 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Application Discovery Arsenal	All 1 actions (see the Application Discovery Arsenal page)	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	arsenal:RegisterOnPremisesAgent
Connector Service	2 of 3	1 Read, 1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	awsconnector:GetConnectorHealth, awsconnector:RegisterConnector
Application Discovery	All 29 actions (see the Application Discovery page)	3 List, 9 Read, 2 Tagging, 15 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	Discovery:*
IAM	1 of 190	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	iam:GetUser
Migration Hub	1 of 46	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	mgh:GetHomeRegion

Connector Service: 2 actions

awsconnector:GetConnectorHealth (Read)
awsconnector:RegisterConnector (Write)

IAM: 1 actions

iam:GetUser (Read)

Migration Hub: 1 actions

mgh:GetHomeRegion (Read)

Data-plane actions (5)

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

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
S3	4 of 25	1 List, 1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 1 Write; 4 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetObject, s3:ListBucket, s3:PutObject, s3:PutObjectAcl
SNS	All 1 actions (see the SNS page)	1 Write; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	SNS:Publish

S3: 4 actions

s3:GetObject (Read)
s3:ListBucket (List)
s3:PutObject (Write)
s3:PutObjectAcl (Permissions management)

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: discovery (15 of 15).
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

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": [
        "awsconnector:RegisterConnector",
        "awsconnector:GetConnectorHealth"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:GetUser",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListBucket"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::connector-platform-upgrade-info/*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::connector-platform-upgrade-info",
        "arn:aws:s3:::connector-platform-upgrade-bundles/*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::connector-platform-upgrade-bundles",
        "arn:aws:s3:::connector-platform-release-notes/*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::connector-platform-release-notes",
        "arn:aws:s3:::prod.agentless.discovery.connector.upgrade/*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::prod.agentless.discovery.connector.upgrade"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::import-to-ec2-connector-debug-logs/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "SNS:Publish"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:*:*:metrics-sns-topic-for-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Discovery",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "Discovery:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "arsenal",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "arsenal:RegisterOnPremisesAgent"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "mgh:GetHomeRegion"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2020-02-24. 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/AWSAgentlessDiscoveryService
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAgentlessDiscoveryService
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAgentlessDiscoveryService

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.