AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnly

Summary

Grants read-only permissions. Explicitly allows operators to gain direct access to retrieve information about resources related to AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnlyCopy ARN

Default version

v2

Created

2021-01-22

Last edited

2026-05-19

Services

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

Control-plane actions (78)

By access level: 49 List, 29 Read.

Data-plane actions (7)

By access level: 2 List, 5 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 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.

Related policies

Same service

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

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": "AllowAPIs",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances",
        "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
        "autoscaling:DescribePolicies",
        "autoscaling:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "autoscaling:DescribeNotificationConfigurations",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:GetTemplate",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
        "cloudformation:ListStacks",
        "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate",
        "cloudtrail:LookupEvents",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "elasticbeanstalk:Check*",
        "elasticbeanstalk:Describe*",
        "elasticbeanstalk:List*",
        "elasticbeanstalk:RequestEnvironmentInfo",
        "elasticbeanstalk:RetrieveEnvironmentInfo",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeSSLPolicies",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "iam:ListInstanceProfiles",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "iam:ListServerCertificates",
        "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeOrderableDBInstanceOptions",
        "rds:DescribeDBSnapshots",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "sqs:ListQueues"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowS3",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetObjectAcl",
        "s3:GetObjectVersion",
        "s3:GetObjectVersionAcl",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetBucketPolicy",
        "s3:ListBucket"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::elasticbeanstalk-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCloudWatchLogsListAndDescribe",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/elasticbeanstalk/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCloudWatchLogsRead",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:GetLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/elasticbeanstalk/*:log-stream:*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2026-05-19. 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/AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnly
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnly
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnly

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnly
• Report a data issue