AWSLambdaExecute

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Summary

Provides Put, Get access to S3 and full access to CloudWatch Logs.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLambdaExecute
Default version: v1
Created: 2015-02-06
Last edited: 2015-02-06
Services: logs, s3

Control-plane actions (133)

By access level: 33 List, 2 Permissions management, 26 Read, 4 Tagging, 68 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch Logs	All 133 actions (see the CloudWatch Logs page)	33 List, 2 Permissions management, 26 Read, 4 Tagging, 68 Write; 133 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:*

Data-plane actions (2)

By access level: 1 Read, 1 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
S3	2 of 25	1 Read, 1 Write; 2 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetObject, s3:PutObject

S3: 2 actions

s3:GetObject (Read)
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: scoped.

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

Why this tier

Grants 75 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under 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": [
        "logs:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:PutObject"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2015-02-06. 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/AWSLambdaExecute
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLambdaExecute
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLambdaExecute

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.