Billing

Summary

A job function policy that grants permissions for billing and cost management. This includes viewing account usage and viewing and modifying budgets and payment methods. The IAM User Guide says it grants full permissions for managing billing, costs, payment methods, budgets and reports.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections reviewed against the listed AWS sources.

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/job-function/BillingCopy ARN

Default version

v31

Created

2016-11-10

Last edited

2026-10-26

Services

account, aws-portal, billing, budgets, ce, consolidatedbilling, cur, freetier, invoicing, mapcredits, payments, pricing, purchase-orders, support, sustainability, tax

Control-plane actions (163)

By access level: 26 List, 1 Permissions management, 60 Read, 10 Tagging, 66 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: mixed.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

• Grants at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: budgets (5 of 5), invoicing (11 of 11), purchase-orders (5 of 6).

Guidance

Related policies

Same service

• AWSAccountActivityAccess
• AWSAccountSettingsManagementRole
• AWSAccountUsageReportAccess
• AWSBillingReadOnlyAccess
• AWSBillingServiceRolePolicy
• AWSBudgetsActionsWithAWSResourceControlAccess
• AWSBudgetsReadOnlyAccess
• AWSCostAndUsageReportAutomationPolicy

Same domain

• AmazonODBAutonomousDatabaseAdmin
• AmazonODBAutonomousVmClusterAdmin
• AmazonODBExadataInfrastructureAdmin
• AmazonODBExadataVmClusterAdmin
• AmazonODBExascaleStorageVaultAdmin
• AmazonODBExascaleVmClusterAdmin
• AmazonODBNetworkAdmin
• AWSManagementConsoleAdministratorAccess

Frequently asked questions

When should I attach Billing?

Attach it to a user who needs to view billing information, set up payments and authorize payments. It is the Billing job function. Activate IAM user and role access to the billing console first, or the permissions in the policy are not enough to open it.

What does Billing grant?

It grants full permissions for managing billing, costs, payment methods, budgets and reports. The document allows actions such as aws-portal:*Billing, aws-portal:*PaymentMethods, budgets:ModifyBudget, payments:MakePayment and billing:RedeemCredits on all resources.

What are the security risks of Billing?

It lets a user change payment methods, make payments, redeem credits and modify budgets, and AWS keeps adding permissions to it. AWS managed policies don't grant least privilege permissions, and you must consider the security risk of granting principals more permissions than they need. AWS updates to the policy affect every identity it is attached to.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "account:GetAccountInformation",
        "aws-portal:*Billing",
        "aws-portal:*PaymentMethods",
        "aws-portal:*Usage",
        "billing:CreateBillingView",
        "billing:DeleteBillingView",
        "billing:GetBillingData",
        "billing:GetBillingDetails",
        "billing:GetBillingNotifications",
        "billing:GetBillingPreferences",
        "billing:GetBillingView",
        "billing:GetContractInformation",
        "billing:GetCredits",
        "billing:GetIAMAccessPreference",
        "billing:GetSellerOfRecord",
        "billing:ListBillingViews",
        "billing:ListContracts",
        "billing:PutContractInformation",
        "billing:RedeemCredits",
        "billing:GetResourcePolicy",
        "billing:ListSourceViewsForBillingView",
        "billing:ListTagsForResource",
        "billing:TagResource",
        "billing:UntagResource",
        "billing:UpdateBillingPreferences",
        "billing:UpdateBillingView",
        "billing:UpdateIAMAccessPreference",
        "budgets:CreateBudgetAction",
        "budgets:DeleteBudgetAction",
        "budgets:DescribeBudgetActionsForBudget",
        "budgets:DescribeBudgetAction",
        "budgets:DescribeBudgetActionsForAccount",
        "budgets:DescribeBudgetActionHistories",
        "budgets:ExecuteBudgetAction",
        "budgets:ModifyBudget",
        "budgets:UpdateBudgetAction",
        "budgets:ViewBudget",
        "ce:CreateCostCategoryDefinition",
        "ce:CreateNotificationSubscription",
        "ce:CreateReport",
        "ce:DeleteCostCategoryDefinition",
        "ce:DeleteNotificationSubscription",
        "ce:DeleteReport",
        "ce:DescribeCostCategoryDefinition",
        "ce:GetCostAndUsage",
        "ce:ListCostAllocationTags",
        "ce:ListCostCategoryDefinitions",
        "ce:ListCostCategoryResourceAssociations",
        "ce:ListTagsForResource",
        "ce:TagResource",
        "ce:UpdateCostAllocationTagsStatus",
        "ce:UpdateNotificationSubscription",
        "ce:UpdatePreferences",
        "ce:UpdateReport",
        "ce:UpdateCostCategoryDefinition",
        "ce:UntagResource",
        "ce:StartCostAllocationTagBackfill",
        "ce:ListCostAllocationTagBackfillHistory",
        "ce:GetTags",
        "ce:GetDimensionValues",
        "consolidatedbilling:GetAccountBillingRole",
        "consolidatedbilling:ListLinkedAccounts",
        "cur:DeleteReportDefinition",
        "cur:DescribeReportDefinitions",
        "cur:GetClassicReport",
        "cur:GetClassicReportPreferences",
        "cur:GetUsageReport",
        "cur:ModifyReportDefinition",
        "cur:PutClassicReportPreferences",
        "cur:PutReportDefinition",
        "cur:ValidateReportDestination",
        "freetier:GetFreeTierAlertPreference",
        "freetier:GetFreeTierUsage",
        "freetier:PutFreeTierAlertPreference",
        "invoicing:BatchGetInvoiceProfile",
        "invoicing:CreateInvoiceUnit",
        "invoicing:DeleteInvoiceUnit",
        "invoicing:GetInvoiceEmailDeliveryPreferences",
        "invoicing:GetInvoicePDF",
        "invoicing:GetInvoiceUnit",
        "invoicing:GetInvoiceCorrection",
        "invoicing:ListInvoiceSummaries",
        "invoicing:ListInvoiceUnits",
        "invoicing:ListProcurementPortals",
        "invoicing:ListProcurementPortalSuppliers",
        "invoicing:CreateProcurementPortalPreference",
        "invoicing:GetProcurementPortalPreference",
        "invoicing:PutProcurementPortalPreference",
        "invoicing:UpdateProcurementPortalPreferenceStatus",
        "invoicing:ListProcurementPortalPreferences",
        "invoicing:DeleteProcurementPortalPreference",
        "invoicing:ListTagsForResource",
        "invoicing:ListInvoiceCorrections",
        "invoicing:StartInvoiceCorrection",
        "invoicing:PutInvoiceEmailDeliveryPreferences",
        "invoicing:SendProcurementPortalValidation",
        "invoicing:TagResource",
        "invoicing:UntagResource",
        "invoicing:UpdateInvoiceUnit",
        "invoicing:VerifyProcurementPortalValidation",
        "mapcredits:ListQuarterSpend",
        "mapcredits:ListAssociatedPrograms",
        "mapcredits:ListQuarterCredits",
        "payments:CreateFinancingApplication",
        "payments:CreatePaymentInstrument",
        "payments:DeletePaymentInstrument",
        "payments:GetFinancingApplication",
        "payments:GetFinancingLine",
        "payments:GetFinancingLineWithdrawal",
        "payments:GetFinancingOption",
        "payments:GetPaymentInstrument",
        "payments:GetPaymentStatus",
        "payments:ListFinancingApplications",
        "payments:ListFinancingLines",
        "payments:ListFinancingLineWithdrawals",
        "payments:ListPaymentPreferences",
        "payments:ListPaymentProgramOptions",
        "payments:ListPaymentProgramStatus",
        "payments:ListTagsForResource",
        "payments:ListPaymentInstruments",
        "payments:MakePayment",
        "payments:TagResource",
        "payments:UntagResource",
        "payments:UpdateFinancingApplication",
        "payments:UpdatePaymentInstrument",
        "payments:UpdatePaymentPreferences",
        "pricing:DescribeServices",
        "purchase-orders:AddPurchaseOrder",
        "purchase-orders:DeletePurchaseOrder",
        "purchase-orders:GetPurchaseOrder",
        "purchase-orders:ListPurchaseOrderInvoices",
        "purchase-orders:ListPurchaseOrders",
        "purchase-orders:ListTagsForResource",
        "purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders",
        "purchase-orders:TagResource",
        "purchase-orders:UntagResource",
        "purchase-orders:UpdatePurchaseOrder",
        "purchase-orders:UpdatePurchaseOrderStatus",
        "purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders",
        "support:CreateCase",
        "support:AddAttachmentsToSet",
        "sustainability:GetCarbonFootprintSummary",
        "tax:BatchPutTaxRegistration",
        "tax:DeleteTaxRegistration",
        "tax:GetExemptions",
        "tax:GetTaxInheritance",
        "tax:GetTaxInterview",
        "tax:GetTaxRegistration",
        "tax:GetTaxRegistrationDocument",
        "tax:ListTaxRegistrations",
        "tax:PutTaxInheritance",
        "tax:PutTaxInterview",
        "tax:PutTaxRegistration",
        "tax:UpdateExemptions"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ContractAdministration",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "billing:AssociateContract",
        "billing:CancelContractualInvestmentAttestation",
        "billing:CreateContractualInvestmentAttestation",
        "billing:DisassociateContract",
        "billing:ListContractualInvestmentAttestations",
        "billing:ListContractualInvestments",
        "billing:ListContractualInvestmentSummaries"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:billing::*:contract/*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v31, edited by AWS on 2026-10-26. 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/job-function/Billing
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/job-function/Billing
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/job-function/Billing

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

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "job_function_billing" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/job-function/Billing"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("job-function/Billing"),
);

Sources

• Billing (AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports summary, practicalScope, securityConsiderations, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• AWS managed policies for job functions (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports summary, useCases, prerequisites, bestPractices, assignmentGuidance, faqs)
• AWS managed policies (AWS Billing User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports useCases, securityConsiderations)
• Managed policies and inline policies (IAM User Guide) (retrieved 2026-11-12; supports securityConsiderations, faqs)

• Official AWS reference for Billing
• AWS service guide
• Report a data issue