AWSCodeDeployRole

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Summary

Provides CodeDeploy service access to expand tags and interact with Auto Scaling on your behalf.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSCodeDeployRole
Default version: v12
Created: 2015-05-04
Last edited: 2026-09-10
Services: autoscaling, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, sns, tag

Control-plane actions (40)

By access level: 10 List, 7 Read, 1 Tagging, 22 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2 Auto Scaling	24 of 68	7 List, 1 Tagging, 16 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	autoscaling:AttachLoadBalancerTargetGroups, autoscaling:AttachLoadBalancers, autoscaling:CompleteLifecycleAction, autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup, autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags, autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup, autoscaling:DeleteLifecycleHook, autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups, autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances, autoscaling:DescribeLifecycleHooks, autoscaling:DescribeNotificationConfigurations, autoscaling:DescribePolicies and 12 more
CloudWatch	2 of 160	1 Read, 1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms, cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm
EC2	3 of 834	2 List, 1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus, ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:TerminateInstances
ELB	10 of 77	1 List, 5 Read, 4 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer, elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroupAttributes, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth, elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer, elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets
Resource Group Tagging	1 of 9	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	tag:GetResources

EC2 Auto Scaling: 24 actions

autoscaling:AttachLoadBalancerTargetGroups (Write)
autoscaling:AttachLoadBalancers (Write)
autoscaling:CompleteLifecycleAction (Write)
autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup (Write)
autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags (Tagging)
autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup (Write)
autoscaling:DeleteLifecycleHook (Write)
autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups (List)
autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances (List)
autoscaling:DescribeLifecycleHooks (List)
autoscaling:DescribeNotificationConfigurations (List)
autoscaling:DescribePolicies (List)
autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities (List)
autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions (List)
autoscaling:EnableMetricsCollection (Write)
autoscaling:PutLifecycleHook (Write)
autoscaling:PutNotificationConfiguration (Write)
autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy (Write)
autoscaling:PutScheduledUpdateGroupAction (Write)
autoscaling:PutWarmPool (Write)
autoscaling:RecordLifecycleActionHeartbeat (Write)
autoscaling:ResumeProcesses (Write)
autoscaling:SuspendProcesses (Write)
autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup (Write)

CloudWatch: 2 actions

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

EC2: 3 actions

ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus (List)
ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:TerminateInstances (Write)

ELB: 10 actions

elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer (Write)
elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets (Write)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers (List)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroupAttributes (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer (Write)
elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets (Write)

Resource Group Tagging: 1 actions

tag:GetResources (Read)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
SNS	All 1 actions (see the SNS page)	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sns:Publish

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 24 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": [
        "autoscaling:CompleteLifecycleAction",
        "autoscaling:DeleteLifecycleHook",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances",
        "autoscaling:DescribeLifecycleHooks",
        "autoscaling:PutLifecycleHook",
        "autoscaling:RecordLifecycleActionHeartbeat",
        "autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags",
        "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:EnableMetricsCollection",
        "autoscaling:DescribePolicies",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
        "autoscaling:DescribeNotificationConfigurations",
        "autoscaling:SuspendProcesses",
        "autoscaling:ResumeProcesses",
        "autoscaling:AttachLoadBalancers",
        "autoscaling:AttachLoadBalancerTargetGroups",
        "autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "autoscaling:PutScheduledUpdateGroupAction",
        "autoscaling:PutNotificationConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:PutWarmPool",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances",
        "tag:GetResources",
        "sns:Publish",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroupAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v12, edited by AWS on 2026-09-10. 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/service-role/AWSCodeDeployRole
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSCodeDeployRole
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSCodeDeployRole

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_awscodedeployrole" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSCodeDeployRole"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AWSCodeDeployRole"),
);

Sources

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