AWSElasticBeanstalkMulticontainerDocker

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Summary

Provide the instances in your multicontainer Docker environment access to use the Amazon EC2 Container Service to manage container deployment tasks.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkMulticontainerDocker
Default version: v5
Created: 2016-02-08
Last edited: 2026-04-29
Services: aws-marketplace, bedrock, ecs, elasticbeanstalk

Control-plane actions (19)

By access level: 2 List, 4 Read, 1 Tagging, 12 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Marketplace	3 of 97	1 List, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	aws-marketplace:Subscribe, aws-marketplace:Unsubscribe, aws-marketplace:ViewSubscriptions
Bedrock	1 of 232	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	bedrock:ListFoundationModels
Elastic Container Service	13 of 92	2 Read, 1 Tagging, 10 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	ecs:DeregisterContainerInstance, ecs:DescribeContainerInstances, ecs:DescribeTasks, ecs:DiscoverPollEndpoint, ecs:Poll, ecs:RegisterContainerInstance, ecs:StartTask, ecs:StartTelemetrySession, ecs:StopTask, ecs:Submit*, ecs:TagResource
Elastic Beanstalk	2 of 50	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentHealth, elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEvents

Marketplace: 3 actions

aws-marketplace:Subscribe (Write)
aws-marketplace:Unsubscribe (Write)
aws-marketplace:ViewSubscriptions (List)

Bedrock: 1 actions

bedrock:ListFoundationModels (List)

Elastic Container Service: 13 actions

ecs:DeregisterContainerInstance (Write)
ecs:DescribeContainerInstances (Read)
ecs:DescribeTasks (Read)
ecs:DiscoverPollEndpoint (Write)
ecs:Poll (Write)
ecs:RegisterContainerInstance (Write)
ecs:StartTask (Write)
ecs:StartTelemetrySession (Write)
ecs:StopTask (Write)
ecs:SubmitAttachmentStateChanges (Write)
ecs:SubmitContainerStateChange (Write)
ecs:SubmitTaskStateChange (Write)
ecs:TagResource (Tagging)

Elastic Beanstalk: 2 actions

elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentHealth (Read)
elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEvents (Read)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Bedrock	1 of 37	1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	bedrock:InvokeModel

Bedrock: 1 actions

bedrock:InvokeModel (Read)

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

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "ECSAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ecs:Poll",
        "ecs:StartTask",
        "ecs:StopTask",
        "ecs:DiscoverPollEndpoint",
        "ecs:StartTelemetrySession",
        "ecs:RegisterContainerInstance",
        "ecs:DeregisterContainerInstance",
        "ecs:DescribeContainerInstances",
        "ecs:Submit*",
        "ecs:DescribeTasks"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowECSTagResource",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ecs:TagResource"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ecs:CreateAction": [
            "RegisterContainerInstance",
            "StartTask"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AIEnvironmentAnalysisInvokeFoundationModel",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "bedrock:InvokeModel",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:bedrock:*::foundation-model/anthropic.claude-*",
        "arn:aws:bedrock:*::foundation-model/amazon.nova-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AIEnvironmentAnalysisInvokeInferenceProfile",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "bedrock:InvokeModel",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:bedrock:*:*:inference-profile/*anthropic.claude-*",
        "arn:aws:bedrock:*:*:inference-profile/*amazon.nova-*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AIEnvironmentAnalysisReadOnly",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "bedrock:ListFoundationModels",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEvents",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironmentHealth"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "MarketplaceOperationsFromBedrock",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "aws-marketplace:Subscribe",
        "aws-marketplace:ViewSubscriptions",
        "aws-marketplace:Unsubscribe"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v5, edited by AWS on 2026-04-29. 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/AWSElasticBeanstalkMulticontainerDocker
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkMulticontainerDocker
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkMulticontainerDocker

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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