AWSApplicationAutoscalingECSServicePolicy

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Summary

Policy granting permissions to Application Auto Scaling to access EC2 Container Service and CloudWatch.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AWSApplicationAutoscalingECSServicePolicy
Default version: v3
Created: 2017-10-25
Last edited: 2026-05-20
Services: cloudwatch, ecs

Control-plane actions (6)

By access level: 3 Read, 3 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	3 of 160	1 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms, cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms, cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm
Elastic Container Service	3 of 92	2 Read, 1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ecs:DescribeServiceRevisions, ecs:DescribeServices, ecs:UpdateService

CloudWatch: 3 actions

cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms (Write)
cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms (Read)
cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm (Write)

Elastic Container Service: 3 actions

ecs:DescribeServiceRevisions (Read)
ecs:DescribeServices (Read)
ecs:UpdateService (Write)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 5	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:GetMetricData

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:GetMetricData (Read)

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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 3 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.

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": [
        "ecs:DescribeServices",
        "ecs:DescribeServiceRevisions",
        "ecs:UpdateService",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2026-05-20. 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.