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AWSSupportAppFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to the AWS Support App and other required services, such as AWS Support and Service Quotas. This policy includes permissions to use the supporting services so that the user can contact AWS Support for support cases, change service quotas, and create the relevant service-linked roles.

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

Identity

ARN
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSupportAppFullAccess
Default version
v1
Created
Last edited
Services
iam, servicequotas, support

Control-plane actions (12)

By access level: 5 Read, 7 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
IAM1 of 1901 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditionaliam:CreateServiceLinkedRole
Service Quotas3 of 262 Read, 1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalservicequotas:GetRequestedServiceQuotaChange, servicequotas:GetServiceQuota, servicequotas:RequestServiceQuotaIncrease
Support8 of 393 Read, 5 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalsupport:AddAttachmentsToSet, support:AddCommunicationToCase, support:CreateCase, support:DescribeCases, support:DescribeCommunications, support:DescribeSeverityLevels, support:InitiateChatForCase, support:ResolveCase
IAM: 1 actions
  • iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
Service Quotas: 3 actions
  • servicequotas:GetRequestedServiceQuotaChange (Read)
  • servicequotas:GetServiceQuota (Read)
  • servicequotas:RequestServiceQuotaIncrease (Write)
Support: 8 actions
  • support:AddAttachmentsToSet (Write)
  • support:AddCommunicationToCase (Write)
  • support:CreateCase (Write)
  • support:DescribeCases (Read)
  • support:DescribeCommunications (Read)
  • support:DescribeSeverityLevels (Read)
  • support:InitiateChatForCase (Write)
  • support:ResolveCase (Write)

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 7 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.

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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "servicequotas:GetRequestedServiceQuotaChange",
        "servicequotas:GetServiceQuota",
        "servicequotas:RequestServiceQuotaIncrease",
        "support:AddAttachmentsToSet",
        "support:AddCommunicationToCase",
        "support:CreateCase",
        "support:DescribeCases",
        "support:DescribeCommunications",
        "support:DescribeSeverityLevels",
        "support:InitiateChatForCase",
        "support:ResolveCase"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "servicequotas.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2022-08-22. 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/AWSSupportAppFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSupportAppFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSupportAppFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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