AWSElasticBeanstalkService

Summary

This policy is on a deprecation path. See documentation for guidance: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/iam-servicerole.html. AWS Elastic Beanstalk Service role policy which grants permissions to create & manage resources (i.e.: AutoScaling, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, ELB, etc.) on your behalf.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSElasticBeanstalkServiceCopy ARN

Default version

v17

Created

2016-04-11

Last edited

2023-05-10

Services

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

Control-plane actions (403)

By access level: 73 List, 26 Permissions management, 115 Read, 16 Tagging, 173 Write.

Data-plane actions (25)

By access level: 3 List, 3 Permissions management, 8 Read, 4 Tagging, 7 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 iam:PassRole on all resources without conditions.
• 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
• AIDevOpsOrganizationsAccessPolicy
• AmazonAppFlowFullAccess
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBedrockStudioPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonBraketJobsExecutionPolicy
• AmazonBraketServiceRolePolicy

Same domain

• AdministratorAccess
• AdministratorAccess-Amplify
• AIDevOpsAgentActionsPolicy
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess_v2
• AmazonDynamoDBFullAccesswithDataPipeline
• AmazonEC2RoleforDataPipelineRole

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": "AllowCloudformationOperationsOnElasticBeanstalkStacks",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/awseb-*",
        "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/eb-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowDeleteCloudwatchLogGroups",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:DeleteLogGroup"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/elasticbeanstalk*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowECSTagResource",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ecs:TagResource"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ecs:CreateAction": [
            "CreateCluster",
            "RegisterTaskDefinition"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowS3OperationsOnElasticBeanstalkBuckets",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:*"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::elasticbeanstalk-*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::elasticbeanstalk-*/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowLaunchTemplateRunInstances",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:RunInstances",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnLike": {
          "ec2:LaunchTemplate": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowELBAddTags",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "elasticloadbalancing:CreateAction": [
            "CreateLoadBalancer"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowOperations",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "autoscaling:AttachInstances",
        "autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:CreateLaunchConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags",
        "autoscaling:DeleteLaunchConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:DeleteScheduledAction",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances",
        "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
        "autoscaling:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "autoscaling:DescribeNotificationConfigurations",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
        "autoscaling:DetachInstances",
        "autoscaling:DeletePolicy",
        "autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "autoscaling:PutScheduledUpdateGroupAction",
        "autoscaling:PutNotificationConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:ResumeProcesses",
        "autoscaling:SetDesiredCapacity",
        "autoscaling:SuspendProcesses",
        "autoscaling:TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "ec2:AssociateAddress",
        "ec2:AllocateAddress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplateVersion",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeSpotInstanceRequests",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink",
        "ec2:DisassociateAddress",
        "ec2:ReleaseAddress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances",
        "ecs:CreateCluster",
        "ecs:DeleteCluster",
        "ecs:DescribeClusters",
        "ecs:RegisterTaskDefinition",
        "elasticbeanstalk:*",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ApplySecurityGroupsToLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ConfigureHealthCheck",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "iam:PassRole",
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:PutRetentionPolicy",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "rds:DescribeOrderableDBInstanceOptions",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetObjectAcl",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "sns:CreateTopic",
        "sns:GetTopicAttributes",
        "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
        "sns:Subscribe",
        "sns:SetTopicAttributes",
        "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
        "sqs:GetQueueUrl",
        "codebuild:CreateProject",
        "codebuild:DeleteProject",
        "codebuild:BatchGetBuilds",
        "codebuild:StartBuild"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v17, edited by AWS on 2023-05-10. 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/service-role/AWSElasticBeanstalkService
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSElasticBeanstalkService
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSElasticBeanstalkService

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

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_awselasticbeanstalkservice" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSElasticBeanstalkService"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AWSElasticBeanstalkService"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSElasticBeanstalkService
• Report a data issue