AWSGrafanaAccountAdministrator

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Summary

Provides access within Amazon Grafana to create and manage workspaces for the entire organization.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSGrafanaAccountAdministrator
Default version: v3
Created: 2021-02-23
Last edited: 2022-02-15
Services: grafana, iam

Control-plane actions (28)

By access level: 3 List, 1 Permissions management, 8 Read, 2 Tagging, 14 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Managed Grafana	All 25 actions (see the Managed Grafana page)	2 List, 1 Permissions management, 7 Read, 2 Tagging, 13 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	grafana:*
IAM	3 of 190	1 List, 1 Read, 1 Write; 2 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:GetRole, iam:ListRoles, iam:PassRole

IAM: 3 actions

iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:ListRoles (List)
iam:PassRole (Write)

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: grafana (14 of 14).
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.

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": "AWSGrafanaOrganizationAdmin",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "GrafanaIAMGetRolePermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:GetRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AWSGrafanaPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "grafana:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "GrafanaIAMPassRolePermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "grafana.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2022-02-15. 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/AWSGrafanaAccountAdministrator
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSGrafanaAccountAdministrator
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSGrafanaAccountAdministrator

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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