AWSAppSyncAdministrator

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Summary

Provides administrative access to the AppSync service, though not enough to access via the console.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAppSyncAdministrator
Default version: v2
Created: 2018-03-20
Last edited: 2019-11-04
Services: appsync, iam

Control-plane actions (91)

By access level: 13 List, 1 Permissions management, 21 Read, 2 Tagging, 54 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
AppSync	All 87 actions (see the AppSync page)	13 List, 1 Permissions management, 20 Read, 2 Tagging, 51 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	appsync:*
IAM	4 of 190	1 Read, 3 Write; 4 restricted, 2 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole, iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus, iam:PassRole

IAM: 4 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus (Read)
iam:PassRole (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: 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: appsync (52 of 52).
Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).

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": [
        "appsync:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "appsync.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "appsync.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
        "iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/appsync.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAppSync*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2019-11-04. 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/AWSAppSyncAdministrator
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAppSyncAdministrator
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSAppSyncAdministrator

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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