AWSConfigUserAccess

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Summary

Provides access to use AWS Config, including searching by tags on resources, and reading all tags. This does not provide permission to configure AWS Config, which requires administrative privileges.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConfigUserAccess
Default version: v4
Created: 2015-02-18
Last edited: 2019-03-18
Services: cloudtrail, config, tag

Control-plane actions (61)

By access level: 18 List, 43 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudTrail	3 of 66	3 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudtrail:DescribeTrails, cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus, cloudtrail:LookupEvents
Config	56 of 102	18 List, 38 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	config:Deliver, config:Describe, config:Get, config:List, config:Select*
Resource Group Tagging	2 of 9	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	tag:GetResources, tag:GetTagKeys

CloudTrail: 3 actions

cloudtrail:DescribeTrails (Read)
cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus (Read)
cloudtrail:LookupEvents (Read)

Config: 56 actions

config:DeliverConfigSnapshot (Read)
config:DescribeAggregateComplianceByConfigRules (Read)
config:DescribeAggregateComplianceByConformancePacks (Read)
config:DescribeAggregationAuthorizations (List)
config:DescribeComplianceByConfigRule (Read)
config:DescribeComplianceByResource (Read)
config:DescribeConfigRuleEvaluationStatus (Read)
config:DescribeConfigRules (List)
config:DescribeConfigurationAggregatorSourcesStatus (Read)
config:DescribeConfigurationAggregators (List)
config:DescribeConfigurationRecorderStatus (Read)
config:DescribeConfigurationRecorders (Read)
config:DescribeConformancePackCompliance (Read)
config:DescribeConformancePackStatus (Read)
config:DescribeConformancePacks (List)
config:DescribeDeliveryChannelStatus (Read)
config:DescribeDeliveryChannels (List)
config:DescribeOrganizationConfigRuleStatuses (Read)
config:DescribeOrganizationConfigRules (List)
config:DescribeOrganizationConformancePackStatuses (Read)
config:DescribeOrganizationConformancePacks (List)
config:DescribePendingAggregationRequests (List)
config:DescribeRemediationConfigurations (List)
config:DescribeRemediationExceptions (List)
config:DescribeRemediationExecutionStatus (Read)
config:DescribeRetentionConfigurations (List)
config:GetAggregateComplianceDetailsByConfigRule (Read)
config:GetAggregateConfigRuleComplianceSummary (Read)
config:GetAggregateConformancePackComplianceSummary (Read)
config:GetAggregateDiscoveredResourceCounts (Read)
config:GetAggregateResourceConfig (Read)
config:GetComplianceDetailsByConfigRule (Read)
config:GetComplianceDetailsByResource (Read)
config:GetComplianceSummaryByConfigRule (Read)
config:GetComplianceSummaryByResourceType (Read)
config:GetConformancePackComplianceDetails (Read)
config:GetConformancePackComplianceSummary (Read)
config:GetConnector (Read)
config:GetCustomRulePolicy (Read)
config:GetDiscoveredResourceCounts (Read)
config:GetOrganizationConfigRuleDetailedStatus (Read)
config:GetOrganizationConformancePackDetailedStatus (Read)
config:GetOrganizationCustomRulePolicy (Read)
config:GetResourceConfigHistory (Read)
config:GetResourceEvaluationSummary (Read)
config:GetStoredQuery (Read)
config:ListAggregateDiscoveredResources (List)
config:ListConfigurationRecorders (List)
config:ListConformancePackComplianceScores (List)
config:ListConnectors (List)
config:ListDiscoveredResources (List)
config:ListResourceEvaluations (List)
config:ListStoredQueries (List)
config:ListTagsForResource (Read)
config:SelectAggregateResourceConfig (Read)
config:SelectResourceConfig (Read)

Resource Group Tagging: 2 actions

tag:GetResources (Read)
tag:GetTagKeys (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": [
        "config:Get*",
        "config:Describe*",
        "config:Deliver*",
        "config:List*",
        "config:Select*",
        "tag:GetResources",
        "tag:GetTagKeys",
        "cloudtrail:DescribeTrails",
        "cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus",
        "cloudtrail:LookupEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2019-03-18. 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/AWSConfigUserAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConfigUserAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConfigUserAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.