AWSIoTDeviceDefenderAudit

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Summary

Provides read access for IoT and related resources

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSIoTDeviceDefenderAudit
Default version: v3
Created: 2018-07-18
Last edited: 2019-11-25
Services: cognito-identity, iam, iot

Control-plane actions (20)

By access level: 6 List, 14 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Cognito Identity	1 of 21	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cognito-identity:GetIdentityPoolRoles
IAM	8 of 190	2 List, 6 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	iam:GenerateServiceLastAccessedDetails, iam:GetPolicy, iam:GetPolicyVersion, iam:GetRole, iam:GetRolePolicy, iam:GetServiceLastAccessedDetails, iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies, iam:ListRolePolicies
IoT	11 of 293	4 List, 7 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	iot:DescribeCACertificate, iot:DescribeCertificate, iot:DescribeRoleAlias, iot:GetEffectivePolicies, iot:GetLoggingOptions, iot:GetPolicy, iot:GetV2LoggingOptions, iot:ListCACertificates, iot:ListCertificates, iot:ListPolicies, iot:ListRoleAliases

Cognito Identity: 1 actions

cognito-identity:GetIdentityPoolRoles (Read)

IAM: 8 actions

iam:GenerateServiceLastAccessedDetails (Read)
iam:GetPolicy (Read)
iam:GetPolicyVersion (Read)
iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:GetRolePolicy (Read)
iam:GetServiceLastAccessedDetails (Read)
iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies (List)
iam:ListRolePolicies (List)

IoT: 11 actions

iot:DescribeCACertificate (Read)
iot:DescribeCertificate (Read)
iot:DescribeRoleAlias (Read)
iot:GetEffectivePolicies (Read)
iot:GetLoggingOptions (Read)
iot:GetPolicy (Read)
iot:GetV2LoggingOptions (Read)
iot:ListCACertificates (List)
iot:ListCertificates (List)
iot:ListPolicies (List)
iot:ListRoleAliases (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: all-resources.

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.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iot:GetLoggingOptions",
        "iot:GetV2LoggingOptions",
        "iot:ListCACertificates",
        "iot:ListCertificates",
        "iot:DescribeCACertificate",
        "iot:DescribeCertificate",
        "iot:ListPolicies",
        "iot:GetPolicy",
        "iot:GetEffectivePolicies",
        "iot:ListRoleAliases",
        "iot:DescribeRoleAlias",
        "cognito-identity:GetIdentityPoolRoles",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:GetPolicy",
        "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "iam:GenerateServiceLastAccessedDetails",
        "iam:GetServiceLastAccessedDetails"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2019-11-25. 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/AWSIoTDeviceDefenderAudit
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSIoTDeviceDefenderAudit
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSIoTDeviceDefenderAudit

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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