AWSPrivateCAPrivilegedUser

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Summary

Provides privileged certificate user 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/AWSPrivateCAPrivilegedUser
Default version: v4
Created: 2023-02-14
Last edited: 2026-02-12
Services: acm-pca

Control-plane actions (5)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Read, 2 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Private Certificate Authority	5 of 23	1 List, 2 Read, 2 Write; 4 restricted, 1 conditional	acm-pca:GetCertificate, acm-pca:IssueCertificate, acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities, acm-pca:ListPermissions, acm-pca:RevokeCertificate

Private Certificate Authority: 5 actions

acm-pca:GetCertificate (Read)
acm-pca:IssueCertificate (Write)
acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities (List)
acm-pca:ListPermissions (Read)
acm-pca:RevokeCertificate (Write)

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

acm-pca:IssueCertificate (deny-conditional, statement 1): 1 matching actions

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

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

Why this tier

Grants 2 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, 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:IssueCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:certificate-authority/*",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnLike": {
          "acm-pca:TemplateArn": [
            "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:template/*CACertificate*/V*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": [
        "acm-pca:IssueCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:certificate-authority/*",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnNotLike": {
          "acm-pca:TemplateArn": [
            "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:template/*CACertificate*/V*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm-pca:RevokeCertificate",
        "acm-pca:GetCertificate",
        "acm-pca:ListPermissions"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:certificate-authority/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. 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/AWSPrivateCAPrivilegedUser
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSPrivateCAPrivilegedUser
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSPrivateCAPrivilegedUser

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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