AWSConnector

Summary

Enables broad read/write access to ALL EC2 objects, read/write access to S3 buckets starting with 'import-to-ec2-', and the ability to list all S3 buckets, for the AWS Connector to import VMs on your behalf.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConnectorCopy ARN

Default version

v3

Created

2015-02-11

Last edited

2015-09-28

Services

ec2, iam, s3, sns

Control-plane actions (38)

By access level: 13 List, 2 Read, 2 Tagging, 21 Write.

Data-plane actions (8)

By access level: 2 List, 1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 4 Write.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

• Grants 28 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.

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

• AccessAnalyzerServiceRolePolicy
• AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
• AIDevOpsReleaseManagementVPCPolicy
• AmazonAppFlowFullAccess
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonBraketJobsExecutionPolicy

Same domain

• AmazonDMSVPCManagementRole
• AmazonDRSVPCManagement
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverEKSClusterScopedPolicy
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicyV2
• AmazonEC2ContainerServiceRole
• AmazonEC2FullAccess
• AmazonEC2ImageReferencesAccessPolicy

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": "iam:GetUser",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:DeleteBucket",
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl",
        "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
        "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
        "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::import-to-ec2-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CancelConversionTask",
        "ec2:CancelExportTask",
        "ec2:CreateImage",
        "ec2:CreateInstanceExportTask",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:DeleteTags",
        "ec2:DeleteVolume",
        "ec2:DescribeConversionTasks",
        "ec2:DescribeExportTasks",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DetachVolume",
        "ec2:ImportInstance",
        "ec2:ImportVolume",
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances",
        "ec2:ImportImage",
        "ec2:DescribeImportImageTasks",
        "ec2:DeregisterImage",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:CancelImportTask",
        "ec2:ImportSnapshot",
        "ec2:DescribeImportSnapshotTasks"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "SNS:Publish"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:*:*:metrics-sns-topic-for-*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2015-09-28. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConnector
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConnector
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSConnector

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSConnector
• Report a data issue