AWSGreengrassResourceAccessRolePolicy

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Summary

Policy for AWS Greengrass service role which allows access to related services including AWS Lambda and AWS IoT thing shadows.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGreengrassResourceAccessRolePolicy
Default version: v5
Created: 2017-02-14
Last edited: 2018-11-14
Services: greengrass, iot, lambda, s3, sagemaker, secretsmanager

Control-plane actions (122)

By access level: 26 List, 1 Permissions management, 40 Read, 2 Tagging, 53 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
IoT Greengrass	All 112 actions (see the IoT Greengrass page)	26 List, 1 Permissions management, 32 Read, 2 Tagging, 51 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	greengrass:*
IoT	5 of 293	3 Read, 2 Write; 5 restricted, 0 conditional	iot:DeleteThingShadow, iot:DescribeCertificate, iot:DescribeThing, iot:GetThingShadow, iot:UpdateThingShadow
Lambda	2 of 121	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	lambda:GetFunction, lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration
S3	1 of 155	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetBucketLocation
SageMaker	1 of 441	1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	sagemaker:DescribeTrainingJob
Secrets Manager	1 of 27	1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	secretsmanager:GetSecretValue

IoT: 5 actions

iot:DeleteThingShadow (Write)
iot:DescribeCertificate (Read)
iot:DescribeThing (Read)
iot:GetThingShadow (Read)
iot:UpdateThingShadow (Write)

Lambda: 2 actions

lambda:GetFunction (Read)
lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration (Read)

S3: 1 actions

s3:GetBucketLocation (Read)

SageMaker: 1 actions

sagemaker:DescribeTrainingJob (Read)

Secrets Manager: 1 actions

secretsmanager:GetSecretValue (Read)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
S3	1 of 25	1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetObject

S3: 1 actions

s3:GetObject (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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: greengrass (52 of 52).

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": "AllowGreengrassAccessToShadows",
      "Action": [
        "iot:DeleteThingShadow",
        "iot:GetThingShadow",
        "iot:UpdateThingShadow"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iot:*:*:thing/GG_*",
        "arn:aws:iot:*:*:thing/*-gcm",
        "arn:aws:iot:*:*:thing/*-gda",
        "arn:aws:iot:*:*:thing/*-gci"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassToDescribeThings",
      "Action": [
        "iot:DescribeThing"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iot:*:*:thing/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassToDescribeCertificates",
      "Action": [
        "iot:DescribeCertificate"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iot:*:*:cert/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassToCallGreengrassServices",
      "Action": [
        "greengrass:*"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassToGetLambdaFunctions",
      "Action": [
        "lambda:GetFunction",
        "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassToGetGreengrassSecrets",
      "Action": [
        "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:greengrass-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassAccessToS3Objects",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::*Greengrass*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::*GreenGrass*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::*greengrass*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::*Sagemaker*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::*SageMaker*",
        "arn:aws:s3:::*sagemaker*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassAccessToS3BucketLocation",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetBucketLocation"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowGreengrassAccessToSageMakerTrainingJobs",
      "Action": [
        "sagemaker:DescribeTrainingJob"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:sagemaker:*:*:training-job/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v5, edited by AWS on 2018-11-14. 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/AWSGreengrassResourceAccessRolePolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGreengrassResourceAccessRolePolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSGreengrassResourceAccessRolePolicy

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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