AWSStorageGatewayReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides access to AWS Storage Gateway via the AWS Management Console.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSStorageGatewayReadOnlyAccess
Default version: v2
Created: 2015-02-06
Last edited: 2022-09-06
Services: ec2, ssm, storagegateway

Control-plane actions (35)

By access level: 13 List, 22 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:DescribeSnapshots
Systems Manager	1 of 164	1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	ssm:GetParameters
Storage Gateway	33 of 97	12 List, 21 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	storagegateway:Describe, storagegateway:List

EC2: 1 actions

ec2:DescribeSnapshots (List)

Systems Manager: 1 actions

ssm:GetParameters (Read)

Storage Gateway: 33 actions

storagegateway:DescribeAvailabilityMonitorTest (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeBandwidthRateLimit (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeBandwidthRateLimitSchedule (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeCache (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeCacheReport (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeCachediSCSIVolumes (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeChapCredentials (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeFileSystemAssociations (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeGatewayInformation (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeMaintenanceStartTime (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeNFSFileShares (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeSMBFileShares (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeSMBSettings (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeSnapshotSchedule (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeStorediSCSIVolumes (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeTapeArchives (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeTapeRecoveryPoints (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeTapes (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeUploadBuffer (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeVTLDevices (Read)
storagegateway:DescribeWorkingStorage (Read)
storagegateway:ListAutomaticTapeCreationPolicies (List)
storagegateway:ListCacheReports (List)
storagegateway:ListFileShares (List)
storagegateway:ListFileSystemAssociations (List)
storagegateway:ListGateways (List)
storagegateway:ListLocalDisks (List)
storagegateway:ListTagsForResource (List)
storagegateway:ListTapePools (List)
storagegateway:ListTapes (List)
storagegateway:ListVolumeInitiators (List)
storagegateway:ListVolumeRecoveryPoints (List)
storagegateway:ListVolumes (List)

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: mixed.

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

AWSStorageGatewayFullAccess

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": [
        "storagegateway:List*",
        "storagegateway:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "fetchStorageGatewayParams",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ssm:GetParameters",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ssm:*::parameter/aws/service/storagegateway/*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2022-09-06. 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/AWSStorageGatewayReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSStorageGatewayReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSStorageGatewayReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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