AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicy

Summary

This policy is for the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service role used to perform managed updates of Elastic Beanstalk environments. This policy should not be attached to other users or roles. The policy grants broad permissions to create and manage resources across a number of AWS services including AutoScaling, EC2, ECS, Elastic Load Balancing and CloudFormation. This policy also allows passing of any IAM role usable with those services.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicyCopy ARN

Default version

v12

Created

2021-03-03

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

autoscaling, cloudformation, cloudwatch, ec2, ecs, elasticbeanstalk, elasticloadbalancing, iam, logs, rds, s3, sns, sqs

Control-plane actions (248)

By access level: 58 List, 3 Permissions management, 58 Read, 9 Tagging, 120 Write.

Data-plane actions (9)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Permissions management, 4 Read, 2 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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: elasticbeanstalk (26 of 26).
• Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.
• 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.

Related policies

Same service

• AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
• AIDevOpsOrganizationsAccessPolicy
• AIDevOpsReleaseManagementVPCPolicy
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary

Same domain

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

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "ElasticBeanstalkPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticbeanstalk:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowPassRoleToElasticBeanstalkAndDownstreamServices",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "elasticbeanstalk.amazonaws.com",
            "ec2.amazonaws.com",
            "ec2.amazonaws.com.cn",
            "autoscaling.amazonaws.com",
            "elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com",
            "ecs.amazonaws.com",
            "cloudformation.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ReadOnlyPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "autoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances",
        "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
        "autoscaling:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "autoscaling:DescribeNotificationConfigurations",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeOrderableDBInstanceOptions",
        "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "EC2BroadOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AllocateAddress",
        "ec2:AssociateAddress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplateVersion",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DisassociateAddress",
        "ec2:ReleaseAddress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "EC2RunInstancesOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:RunInstances",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnLike": {
          "ec2:LaunchTemplate": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "EC2TerminateInstancesOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": [
            "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/awseb-e-*",
            "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/eb-*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ECSBroadOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ecs:CreateCluster",
        "ecs:DescribeClusters",
        "ecs:RegisterTaskDefinition"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ECSDeleteClusterOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ecs:DeleteCluster",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ecs:*:*:cluster/awseb-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ASGOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "autoscaling:AttachInstances",
        "autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:CreateLaunchConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags",
        "autoscaling:DeleteLaunchConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:DeleteScheduledAction",
        "autoscaling:DetachInstances",
        "autoscaling:DeletePolicy",
        "autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "autoscaling:PutScheduledUpdateGroupAction",
        "autoscaling:PutNotificationConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:ResumeProcesses",
        "autoscaling:SetDesiredCapacity",
        "autoscaling:SuspendProcesses",
        "autoscaling:TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:autoscaling:*:*:launchConfiguration:*:launchConfigurationName/awseb-e-*",
        "arn:aws:autoscaling:*:*:launchConfiguration:*:launchConfigurationName/eb-*",
        "arn:aws:autoscaling:*:*:autoScalingGroup:*:autoScalingGroupName/awseb-e-*",
        "arn:aws:autoscaling:*:*:autoScalingGroup:*:autoScalingGroupName/eb-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CFNOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/awseb-*",
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/eb-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ELBOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ApplySecurityGroupsToLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ConfigureHealthCheck",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/awseb-*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/eb-*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/awseb-*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/eb-*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/*/awseb-*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/*/eb-*/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CWLogsOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:DeleteLogGroup",
        "logs:PutRetentionPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/elasticbeanstalk/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "S3ObjectOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetObjectAcl",
        "s3:GetObjectVersion",
        "s3:GetObjectVersionAcl",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl",
        "s3:PutObjectVersionAcl"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::elasticbeanstalk-*/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "S3BucketOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetBucketPolicy",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:PutBucketPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::elasticbeanstalk-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "SNSOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sns:CreateTopic",
        "sns:GetTopicAttributes",
        "sns:SetTopicAttributes",
        "sns:Subscribe"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:*:*:ElasticBeanstalkNotifications-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "SQSOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
        "sqs:GetQueueUrl"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sqs:*:*:awseb-e-*",
        "arn:aws:sqs:*:*:eb-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CWPutMetricAlarmOperationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:awseb-*",
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:eb-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowECSTagResource",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ecs:TagResource"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ecs:CreateAction": [
            "CreateCluster",
            "RegisterTaskDefinition"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "LaunchTemplateTagPropagationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:createTags",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": [
            "CreateLaunchTemplate",
            "RunInstances",
            "AllocateAddress"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v12, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. 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/AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicy

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesCustomerRolePolicy
• Report a data issue