AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

This policy grants read-only permissions to search for and view Resource Explorer resources and grants read-only permissions to other AWS services to support this access.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2022-11-07
Last edited: 2023-11-14
Services: ec2, organizations, ram, resource-explorer-2

Control-plane actions (24)

By access level: 10 List, 14 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	1 of 834	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeRegions
Organizations	1 of 63	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	organizations:DescribeOrganization
Resource Access Manager	2 of 39	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ram:GetResourceShares, ram:ListResources
Resource Explorer	20 of 37	8 List, 12 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	resource-explorer-2:BatchGetView, resource-explorer-2:Get, resource-explorer-2:List, resource-explorer-2:Search

EC2: 1 actions

ec2:DescribeRegions (List)

Organizations: 1 actions

organizations:DescribeOrganization (Read)

Resource Access Manager: 2 actions

ram:GetResourceShares (Read)
ram:ListResources (List)

Resource Explorer: 20 actions

resource-explorer-2:BatchGetView (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetAccountLevelServiceConfiguration (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetDefaultView (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetIndex (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetManagedView (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetResourceExplorerSetup (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetResourcePolicy (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetServiceIndex (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetServiceView (Read)
resource-explorer-2:GetView (Read)
resource-explorer-2:ListIndexes (List)
resource-explorer-2:ListIndexesForMembers (List)
resource-explorer-2:ListManagedViews (List)
resource-explorer-2:ListServiceIndexes (List)
resource-explorer-2:ListServiceViews (List)
resource-explorer-2:ListStreamingAccessForServices (List)
resource-explorer-2:ListSupportedResourceTypes (List)
resource-explorer-2:ListTagsForResource (Read)
resource-explorer-2:ListViews (List)
resource-explorer-2:Search (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: all-resources.

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

Why this tier

Grants only List and Read actions.

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": [
    {
      "Sid": "ResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "resource-explorer-2:Get*",
        "resource-explorer-2:List*",
        "resource-explorer-2:Search",
        "resource-explorer-2:BatchGetView",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ram:ListResources",
        "ram:GetResourceShares",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2023-11-14. 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/AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSResourceExplorerReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.