AWSTransferConsoleFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to AWS Transfer 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/AWSTransferConsoleFullAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2020-12-14
Last edited: 2020-12-14
Services: acm, ec2, health, iam, route53, s3, transfer

Control-plane actions (87)

By access level: 17 List, 25 Read, 2 Tagging, 43 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Certificate Manager	1 of 42	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	acm:ListCertificates
EC2	7 of 834	7 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeAddresses, ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones, ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces, ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups, ec2:DescribeSubnets, ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints, ec2:DescribeVpcs
Health	1 of 14	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	health:DescribeEventAggregates
IAM	4 of 190	2 List, 1 Read, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:GetPolicyVersion, iam:ListPolicies, iam:ListRoles, iam:PassRole
Route 53	1 of 71	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	route53:ListHostedZones
S3	1 of 155	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:ListAllMyBuckets
Transfer	All 72 actions (see the Transfer page)	5 List, 23 Read, 2 Tagging, 42 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	transfer:*

Certificate Manager: 1 actions

acm:ListCertificates (List)

EC2: 7 actions

ec2:DescribeAddresses (List)
ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones (List)
ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces (List)
ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups (List)
ec2:DescribeSubnets (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints (List)
ec2:DescribeVpcs (List)

Health: 1 actions

health:DescribeEventAggregates (Read)

IAM: 4 actions

iam:GetPolicyVersion (Read)
iam:ListPolicies (List)
iam:ListRoles (List)
iam:PassRole (Write)

Route 53: 1 actions

route53:ListHostedZones (List)

S3: 1 actions

s3:ListAllMyBuckets (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: 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: transfer (42 of 42).
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.

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": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "transfer.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "health:DescribeEventAggregates",
        "iam:GetPolicyVersion",
        "iam:ListPolicies",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "route53:ListHostedZones",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "transfer:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2020-12-14. 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/AWSTransferConsoleFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSTransferConsoleFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSTransferConsoleFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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