AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to AWS CloudTrail.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2022-06-14
Last edited: 2022-06-14
Services: cloudtrail

Control-plane actions (27)

By access level: 8 List, 19 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudTrail	27 of 66	8 List, 19 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudtrail:Describe, cloudtrail:Get, cloudtrail:List*, cloudtrail:LookupEvents

CloudTrail: 27 actions

cloudtrail:DescribeQuery (Read)
cloudtrail:DescribeTrails (Read)
cloudtrail:GetChannel (Read)
cloudtrail:GetDashboard (Read)
cloudtrail:GetEventConfiguration (Read)
cloudtrail:GetEventDataStore (Read)
cloudtrail:GetEventDataStoreData (Read)
cloudtrail:GetEventSelectors (Read)
cloudtrail:GetImport (Read)
cloudtrail:GetInsightSelectors (Read)
cloudtrail:GetQueryResults (Read)
cloudtrail:GetResourcePolicy (Read)
cloudtrail:GetServiceLinkedChannel (Read)
cloudtrail:GetTrail (Read)
cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus (Read)
cloudtrail:ListChannels (List)
cloudtrail:ListDashboards (List)
cloudtrail:ListEventDataStores (List)
cloudtrail:ListImportFailures (Read)
cloudtrail:ListImports (List)
cloudtrail:ListInsightsData (List)
cloudtrail:ListPublicKeys (Read)
cloudtrail:ListQueries (List)
cloudtrail:ListServiceLinkedChannels (List)
cloudtrail:ListTags (Read)
cloudtrail:ListTrails (List)
cloudtrail:LookupEvents (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.

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": [
        "cloudtrail:Get*",
        "cloudtrail:Describe*",
        "cloudtrail:List*",
        "cloudtrail:LookupEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2022-06-14. 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/AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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