AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to AWS Direct Connect via the AWS Management Console.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v4
Created: 2015-02-06
Last edited: 2020-05-18
Services: directconnect, ec2

Control-plane actions (24)

By access level: 6 List, 18 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Direct Connect	22 of 73	4 List, 18 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	directconnect:Describe, directconnect:List
EC2	2 of 834	2 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeTransitGateways, ec2:DescribeVpnGateways

Direct Connect: 22 actions

directconnect:DescribeConnectionLoa (Read)
directconnect:DescribeConnections (Read)
directconnect:DescribeConnectionsOnInterconnect (Read)
directconnect:DescribeCustomerMetadata (Read)
directconnect:DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposals (Read)
directconnect:DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociations (Read)
directconnect:DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAttachments (Read)
directconnect:DescribeDirectConnectGateways (Read)
directconnect:DescribeHostedConnections (Read)
directconnect:DescribeInterconnectLoa (Read)
directconnect:DescribeInterconnects (Read)
directconnect:DescribeLags (Read)
directconnect:DescribeLoa (Read)
directconnect:DescribeLocations (Read)
directconnect:DescribeRouterConfiguration (Read)
directconnect:DescribeTags (Read)
directconnect:DescribeVirtualGateways (Read)
directconnect:DescribeVirtualInterfaces (Read)
directconnect:ListResiliencyGroupAssociations (List)
directconnect:ListResiliencyGroups (List)
directconnect:ListVirtualInterfaceRoutes (List)
directconnect:ListVirtualInterfaceTestHistory (List)

EC2: 2 actions

ec2:DescribeTransitGateways (List)
ec2:DescribeVpnGateways (List)

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": [
        "directconnect:Describe*",
        "directconnect:List*",
        "ec2:DescribeVpnGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeTransitGateways"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2020-05-18. 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/AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSDirectConnectReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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