AWSServiceRoleForSMS

Summary

Provides access to AWS services and resources necessary to migrate service instances into AWS including EC2, S3 and Cloudformation.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AWSServiceRoleForSMSCopy ARN

Default version

v10

Created

2019-08-06

Last edited

2020-10-15

Services

applicationinsights, cloudformation, ec2, iam, resource-groups, s3, sms, ssm

Control-plane actions (83)

By access level: 15 List, 1 Permissions management, 26 Read, 2 Tagging, 39 Write.

Data-plane actions (5)

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

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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

• Grants 45 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.
• Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).

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.

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• AmazonCloudWatchRUMReadOnlyAccess
• AmazonCloudWatchRUMServiceRolePolicy

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": [
        "cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:CreateStack"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*",
      "Condition": {
        "Null": {
          "cloudformation:ResourceTypes": "false"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "cloudformation:ResourceTypes": [
            "AWS::EC2::Instance",
            "AWS::ApplicationInsights::Application",
            "AWS::ResourceGroups::Group"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
        "cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:DeleteChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources",
        "cloudformation:GetTemplate"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:DeleteBucket",
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:GetBucketAcl",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl",
        "s3:PutLifecycleConfiguration"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sms-app-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "sms:CreateReplicationJob",
        "sms:DeleteReplicationJob",
        "sms:GetReplicationJobs",
        "sms:GetReplicationRuns",
        "sms:GetServers",
        "sms:ImportServerCatalog",
        "sms:StartOnDemandReplicationRun",
        "sms:UpdateReplicationJob"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ssm:SendCommand",
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*::document/AWS-RunRemoteScript",
        "arn:aws:s3:::sms-app-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ssm:SendCommand",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ssm:resourceTag/UseForSMSApplicationValidation": [
            "true"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:CancelCommand",
        "ssm:GetCommandInvocation"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CopySnapshot"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CopySnapshot",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:RequestTag/SMSJobId": [
            "sms-*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:ModifySnapshotAttribute",
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/SMSJobId": [
            "sms-*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CopyImage",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshotAttribute",
        "ec2:DeregisterImage",
        "ec2:ImportImage",
        "ec2:DescribeImportImageTasks",
        "ec2:GetEbsEncryptionByDefault"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:GetInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DisassociateIamInstanceProfile",
        "ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile",
        "ec2:ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "ec2.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEqualsIfExists": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "cloudformation.amazonaws.com"
        },
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AssociatedResourceArn": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:RunInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "applicationinsights:Describe*",
        "applicationinsights:List*",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "applicationinsights:CreateApplication",
        "applicationinsights:CreateComponent",
        "applicationinsights:UpdateApplication",
        "applicationinsights:DeleteApplication",
        "applicationinsights:UpdateComponentConfiguration",
        "applicationinsights:DeleteComponent"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:applicationinsights:*:*:application/resource-group/sms-app-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "resource-groups:CreateGroup",
        "resource-groups:GetGroup",
        "resource-groups:UpdateGroup",
        "resource-groups:DeleteGroup"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:resource-groups:*:*:group/sms-app-*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-insights.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationInsights"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "application-insights.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v10, edited by AWS on 2020-10-15. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSServiceRoleForSMS
• Report a data issue