AWSCodeDeployRoleForECS

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Summary

Provides CodeDeploy service wide access to perform an ECS blue/green deployment on your behalf. Grants full access to support services, such as full access to read all S3 objects, invoke all Lambda functions, publish to all SNS topics within the account and update all ECS services.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCodeDeployRoleForECS
Default version: v3
Created: 2018-11-27
Last edited: 2019-09-23
Services: cloudwatch, ecs, elasticloadbalancing, iam, lambda, s3, sns

Control-plane actions (11)

By access level: 5 Read, 6 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 160	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms
Elastic Container Service	4 of 92	1 Read, 3 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ecs:CreateTaskSet, ecs:DeleteTaskSet, ecs:DescribeServices, ecs:UpdateServicePrimaryTaskSet
ELB	5 of 77	3 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups, elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListener, elasticloadbalancing:ModifyRule
IAM	1 of 190	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:PassRole

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms (Read)

Elastic Container Service: 4 actions

ecs:CreateTaskSet (Write)
ecs:DeleteTaskSet (Write)
ecs:DescribeServices (Read)
ecs:UpdateServicePrimaryTaskSet (Write)

ELB: 5 actions

elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListener (Write)
elasticloadbalancing:ModifyRule (Write)

IAM: 1 actions

iam:PassRole (Write)

Data-plane actions (4)

By access level: 2 Read, 2 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Lambda	1 of 14	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	lambda:InvokeFunction
S3	2 of 25	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetObject, s3:GetObjectVersion
SNS	All 1 actions (see the SNS page)	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sns:Publish

Lambda: 1 actions

lambda:InvokeFunction (Write)

S3: 2 actions

s3:GetObject (Read)
s3:GetObjectVersion (Read)

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 8 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
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

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "ecs:DescribeServices",
        "ecs:CreateTaskSet",
        "ecs:UpdateServicePrimaryTaskSet",
        "ecs:DeleteTaskSet",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyRule",
        "lambda:InvokeFunction",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "sns:Publish",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetObjectVersion"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Effect": "Allow"
    },
    {
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "ecs-tasks.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2019-09-23. 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/AWSCodeDeployRoleForECS
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCodeDeployRoleForECS
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCodeDeployRoleForECS

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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