AWSIoTRuleActions

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Summary

Allows access to all AWS services supported in AWS IoT Rule Actions

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSIoTRuleActions
Default version: v2
Created: 2015-10-08
Last edited: 2018-01-16
Services: cloudwatch, dynamodb, es, firehose, iot, kinesis, s3, sns, sqs

Control-plane actions (4)

By access level: 4 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 160	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:SetAlarmState
OpenSearch Service	1 of 138	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	es:ESHttpPut
IoT	1 of 293	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	iot:Publish
SQS	1 of 20	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sqs:SendMessage*

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:SetAlarmState (Write)

OpenSearch Service: 1 actions

es:ESHttpPut (Write)

IoT: 1 actions

iot:Publish (Write)

SQS: 1 actions

sqs:SendMessage (Write)

Data-plane actions (6)

By access level: 6 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 5	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:PutMetricData
DynamoDB	1 of 17	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	dynamodb:PutItem
Firehose	1 of 2	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	firehose:PutRecord
Kinesis	1 of 5	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	kinesis:PutRecord
S3	1 of 25	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:PutObject
SNS	All 1 actions (see the SNS page)	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sns:Publish

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:PutMetricData (Write)

DynamoDB: 1 actions

dynamodb:PutItem (Write)

Firehose: 1 actions

firehose:PutRecord (Write)

Kinesis: 1 actions

kinesis:PutRecord (Write)

S3: 1 actions

s3:PutObject (Write)

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 10 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
Grants data-plane write actions on a data store on all resources without 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.

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": {
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
      "dynamodb:PutItem",
      "kinesis:PutRecord",
      "iot:Publish",
      "s3:PutObject",
      "sns:Publish",
      "sqs:SendMessage*",
      "cloudwatch:SetAlarmState",
      "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
      "es:ESHttpPut",
      "firehose:PutRecord"
    ],
    "Resource": "*"
  }
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2018-01-16. 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/AWSIoTRuleActions
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSIoTRuleActions
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSIoTRuleActions

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.