AWSQuickSetupManagedInstanceProfileExecutionPolicy

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Summary

This policy grants administrative permissions that allow Systems Manager to create a default IAM instance profile for the Quick Setup capability and attach it to Amazon EC2 instances that don't already have an instance. profile attached.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSQuickSetupManagedInstanceProfileExecutionPolicy
Default version: v9
Created: 2024-11-15
Last edited: 2026-10-27
Services: ec2, iam, ssm

Control-plane actions (18)

By access level: 3 List, 1 Permissions management, 5 Read, 2 Tagging, 7 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	3 of 834	2 List, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile, ec2:DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations, ec2:DescribeInstances
IAM	9 of 190	1 List, 1 Permissions management, 2 Read, 1 Tagging, 4 Write; 7 restricted, 3 conditional	iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile, iam:AttachRolePolicy, iam:CreateInstanceProfile, iam:CreateRole, iam:GetInstanceProfile, iam:GetRole, iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole, iam:PassRole, iam:TagRole
Systems Manager	6 of 164	3 Read, 1 Tagging, 2 Write; 4 restricted, 4 conditional	ssm:AddTagsToResource, ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation, ssm:GetAutomationExecution, ssm:GetCalendarState, ssm:StartAutomationExecution, ssm:UpdateManagedInstanceRole

EC2: 3 actions

ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile (Write)
ec2:DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations (List)
ec2:DescribeInstances (List)

IAM: 9 actions

iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile (Write)
iam:AttachRolePolicy (Permissions management)
iam:CreateInstanceProfile (Write)
iam:CreateRole (Write)
iam:GetInstanceProfile (Read)
iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole (List)
iam:PassRole (Write)
iam:TagRole (Tagging)

Systems Manager: 6 actions

ssm:AddTagsToResource (Tagging)
ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation (Read)
ssm:GetAutomationExecution (Read)
ssm:GetCalendarState (Read)
ssm:StartAutomationExecution (Write)
ssm:UpdateManagedInstanceRole (Write)

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

iam:AttachRolePolicy (deny-conditional, statement 10): 1 matching actions
iam:TagRole (deny-conditional, statement 10): 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 10 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).
Grants permissions-management actions on iam, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.

Guidance

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Same service

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Frequently asked questions

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "ReadOnlyPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetInstanceProfile",
        "iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DefaultInstanceRoleManagePermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateRole",
        "iam:GetRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DefaultInstanceProfileCreatePermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DefaultInstanceRoleAddPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DefaultInstanceProfileAssociationPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "Null": {
          "ec2:InstanceProfile": "true"
        },
        "ArnLike": {
          "ec2:NewInstanceProfile": "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DefaultInstanceRolePassToEC2AndSSMPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "ec2.amazonaws.com",
            "ssm.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "InstanceManagementPoliciesAttachAmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnEquals": {
          "iam:PolicyARN": [
            "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore",
            "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSSMPatchAssociation",
            "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSQuickSetupPatchPolicyBaselineAccess",
            "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonElasticFileSystemsUtils",
            "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy"
          ]
        }
      },
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "InstanceProfileAssociationEc2Permissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "SSMInstanceManagement",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation",
        "ssm:UpdateManagedInstanceRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "TagRoles",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:TagRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition": {
        "ForAllValues:StringLike": {
          "aws:TagKeys": "QSConfigId-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DenyModifyQuickSetupAutomationRoles",
      "Effect": "Deny",
      "Action": [
        "iam:TagRole",
        "iam:AttachRolePolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-QuickSetup-AutomationRole-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AutomationsStartWithTagPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:StartAutomationExecution",
        "ssm:AddTagsToResource"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-execution/*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-AttachIAMToInstance*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-AttachIAMToInstance*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:RequestTag/InvokedBy": [
            "AWSQuickSetupType-ManageInstanceProfile"
          ],
          "aws:ResourceTag/InvokedBy": [
            "AWSQuickSetupType-ManageInstanceProfile"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AutomationsGetPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ssm:GetAutomationExecution",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/InvokedBy": [
            "AWSQuickSetupType-ManageInstanceProfile"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "GetQuickSetupAutomationAssumeRoles",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:GetRole",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-QuickSetup-*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:ResourceTag/QuickSetupDocument": [
            "AWSQuickSetupType-SSM",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-SSMHostMgmt",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-PatchPolicy",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-Distributor",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-CWASetup"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "PassQuickSetupAutomationAssumeRoles",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-QuickSetup-*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "ssm.amazonaws.com"
          ],
          "iam:ResourceTag/QuickSetupDocument": [
            "AWSQuickSetupType-SSM",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-SSMHostMgmt",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-PatchPolicy",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-Distributor",
            "AWSQuickSetupType-CWASetup"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ssm:GetCalendarState",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:userid": "*:SystemsManager-Automation-ChangeCalendar-Check"
        },
        "StringEquals": {
          "ssm:DocumentType": "ChangeCalendar"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v9, edited by AWS on 2026-10-27. 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/AWSQuickSetupManagedInstanceProfileExecutionPolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSQuickSetupManagedInstanceProfileExecutionPolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSQuickSetupManagedInstanceProfileExecutionPolicy

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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