AWSZonalAutoshiftPracticeRunSLRPolicy

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Summary

Provides administrative access for ARC zonal shift practice runs, and access to CloudWatch alarm statuses to monitor practice runs.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AWSZonalAutoshiftPracticeRunSLRPolicy
Default version: v2
Created: 2023-11-29
Last edited: 2025-06-30
Services: arc-zonal-shift, autoscaling, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, health

Control-plane actions (10)

By access level: 2 List, 5 Read, 3 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
ARC Zonal Shift	4 of 15	1 Read, 3 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	arc-zonal-shift:CancelZonalShift, arc-zonal-shift:GetManagedResource, arc-zonal-shift:StartZonalShift, arc-zonal-shift:UpdateZonalShift
EC2 Auto Scaling	1 of 68	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups
CloudWatch	1 of 160	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms
EC2	1 of 834	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeInstances
ELB	2 of 77	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups, elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth
Health	1 of 14	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	health:DescribeEvents

ARC Zonal Shift: 4 actions

arc-zonal-shift:CancelZonalShift (Write)
arc-zonal-shift:GetManagedResource (Read)
arc-zonal-shift:StartZonalShift (Write)
arc-zonal-shift:UpdateZonalShift (Write)

EC2 Auto Scaling: 1 actions

autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups (List)

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms (Read)

EC2: 1 actions

ec2:DescribeInstances (List)

ELB: 2 actions

elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups (Read)
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth (Read)

Health: 1 actions

health:DescribeEvents (Read)

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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 3 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": [
    {
      "Sid": "MonitoringPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "health:DescribeEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AutoshiftPracticeCheckPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ZonalShiftManagementPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "arc-zonal-shift:CancelZonalShift",
        "arc-zonal-shift:GetManagedResource",
        "arc-zonal-shift:StartZonalShift",
        "arc-zonal-shift:UpdateZonalShift"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2025-06-30. 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.