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AWSCloudHSMReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to all CloudHSM resources.

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

Identity

ARN
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloudHSMReadOnlyAccess
Default version
v1
Created
Last edited
Services
cloudhsm

Control-plane actions (4)

By access level: 4 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
CloudHSM4 of 184 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalcloudhsm:Describe*, cloudhsm:Get*, cloudhsm:List*
CloudHSM: 4 actions
  • cloudhsm:DescribeBackups (Read)
  • cloudhsm:DescribeClusters (Read)
  • cloudhsm:GetResourcePolicy (Read)
  • cloudhsm:ListTags (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: 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.

Related policies

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": [
        "cloudhsm:Get*",
        "cloudhsm:List*",
        "cloudhsm:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2015-02-06. 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/AWSCloudHSMReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloudHSMReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloudHSMReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.