AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy

Summary

Provides the AWS DDoS Response Team with limited access to your AWS account to assist with DDoS attack mitigation during a high-severity event.

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

Identity

ARN

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

Default version

v6

Created

2018-06-05

Last edited

2020-12-15

Services

apigateway, cloudfront, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, globalaccelerator, route53, shield, waf, waf-regional, wafv2

Control-plane actions (419)

By access level: 131 List, 13 Permissions management, 146 Read, 8 Tagging, 121 Write.

Data-plane actions (4)

By access level: 1 List, 3 Read.

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: shield (22 of 22), waf (41 of 41), waf-regional (43 of 43), wafv2 (25 of 25).

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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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": "SRTAccessProtectedResources",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudfront:List*",
        "route53:List*",
        "elasticloadbalancing:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:Get*",
        "cloudwatch:List*",
        "cloudfront:GetDistribution*",
        "globalaccelerator:ListAccelerators",
        "globalaccelerator:DescribeAccelerator",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "SRTManageProtections",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "shield:*",
        "waf:*",
        "wafv2:*",
        "waf-regional:*",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetWebACL",
        "cloudfront:UpdateDistribution",
        "apigateway:SetWebACL"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v6, edited by AWS on 2020-12-15. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy

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

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_awsshielddrtaccesspolicy" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy
• Report a data issue