AWSAppMeshReadOnly

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Summary

Provides read-only access to the AWS App Mesh APIs and Management Console.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAppMeshReadOnly
Default version: v5
Created: 2019-04-16
Last edited: 2021-01-07
Services: acm, acm-pca, appmesh, cloudformation, servicediscovery

Control-plane actions (32)

By access level: 11 List, 21 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Certificate Manager	2 of 42	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	acm:DescribeCertificate, acm:ListCertificates
Private Certificate Authority	2 of 23	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority, acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities
App Mesh	15 of 42	8 List, 7 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	appmesh:Describe, appmesh:List
CloudFormation	10 of 104	1 List, 9 Read; 10 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudformation:DescribeStack*
Cloud Map	3 of 31	3 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	servicediscovery:ListInstances, servicediscovery:ListNamespaces, servicediscovery:ListServices

Certificate Manager: 2 actions

acm:DescribeCertificate (Read)
acm:ListCertificates (List)

Private Certificate Authority: 2 actions

acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority (Read)
acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities (List)

App Mesh: 15 actions

appmesh:DescribeGatewayRoute (Read)
appmesh:DescribeMesh (Read)
appmesh:DescribeRoute (Read)
appmesh:DescribeVirtualGateway (Read)
appmesh:DescribeVirtualNode (Read)
appmesh:DescribeVirtualRouter (Read)
appmesh:DescribeVirtualService (Read)
appmesh:ListGatewayRoutes (List)
appmesh:ListMeshes (List)
appmesh:ListRoutes (List)
appmesh:ListTagsForResource (List)
appmesh:ListVirtualGateways (List)
appmesh:ListVirtualNodes (List)
appmesh:ListVirtualRouters (List)
appmesh:ListVirtualServices (List)

CloudFormation: 10 actions

cloudformation:DescribeStackDriftDetectionStatus (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackInstance (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackRefactor (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackResource (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackResourceDrifts (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackResources (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackSet (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackSetOperation (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStacks (List)

Cloud Map: 3 actions

servicediscovery:ListInstances (Read)
servicediscovery:ListNamespaces (Read)
servicediscovery:ListServices (Read)

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: mixed.

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

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": [
        "appmesh:Describe*",
        "appmesh:List*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:DescribeStack*"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/AWSAppMesh-GettingStarted-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "acm:DescribeCertificate",
        "acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority",
        "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "servicediscovery:ListNamespaces",
        "servicediscovery:ListServices",
        "servicediscovery:ListInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v5, edited by AWS on 2021-01-07. 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/AWSAppMeshReadOnly
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAppMeshReadOnly
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAppMeshReadOnly

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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