AWSPrivateCAAuditor

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Summary

Provides auditor access to AWS Private Certificate Authority

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSPrivateCAAuditor
Default version: v1
Created: 2023-02-14
Last edited: 2023-02-14
Services: acm-pca

Control-plane actions (10)

By access level: 1 List, 8 Read, 1 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Private Certificate Authority	10 of 23	1 List, 8 Read, 1 Write; 9 restricted, 0 conditional	acm-pca:CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport, acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority, acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport, acm-pca:GetCertificate, acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate, acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCsr, acm-pca:GetPolicy, acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities, acm-pca:ListPermissions, acm-pca:ListTags

Private Certificate Authority: 10 actions

acm-pca:CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport (Write)
acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority (Read)
acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport (Read)
acm-pca:GetCertificate (Read)
acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate (Read)
acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCsr (Read)
acm-pca:GetPolicy (Read)
acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities (List)
acm-pca:ListPermissions (Read)
acm-pca:ListTags (Read)

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 1 write, tagging or permissions-management action, short of full control of any service.

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": [
        "acm-pca:CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport",
        "acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority",
        "acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport",
        "acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCsr",
        "acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate",
        "acm-pca:GetCertificate",
        "acm-pca:GetPolicy",
        "acm-pca:ListPermissions",
        "acm-pca:ListTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:certificate-authority/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2023-02-14. 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/AWSPrivateCAAuditor
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSPrivateCAAuditor
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSPrivateCAAuditor

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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