AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy

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Summary

This policy allows AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) to support cross-account replication and cross-account failback.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy
Default version: v2
Created: 2023-05-14
Last edited: 2024-01-17
Services: drs, ec2

Control-plane actions (7)

By access level: 3 List, 2 Read, 1 Tagging, 1 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
DRS	4 of 110	2 Read, 1 Tagging, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	drs:CreateSourceServerForDrs, drs:DescribeReplicationConfigurationTemplates, drs:DescribeSourceServers, drs:TagResource
EC2	3 of 834	3 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeVolumeAttribute, ec2:DescribeVolumes

DRS: 4 actions

drs:CreateSourceServerForDrs (Write)
drs:DescribeReplicationConfigurationTemplates (Read)
drs:DescribeSourceServers (Read)
drs:TagResource (Tagging)

EC2: 3 actions

ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
ec2:DescribeVolumeAttribute (List)
ec2:DescribeVolumes (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: mixed.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants 2 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
1 granted write or permissions-management action has no data-plane classification from AWS, so the data-plane rule cannot assess it.

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

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "CrossAccountPolicy1",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumeAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "drs:DescribeSourceServers",
        "drs:DescribeReplicationConfigurationTemplates",
        "drs:CreateSourceServerForDrs"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CrossAccountPolicy2",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "drs:TagResource"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:drs:*:*:source-server/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "drs:CreateAction": "CreateSourceServerForDrs"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2024-01-17. 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/service-role/AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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