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IAM Policy Map

CloudFrontFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to the CloudFront console plus the ability to list Amazon S3 buckets 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/CloudFrontFullAccess
Default version
v15
Created
Last edited
Services
acm, cloudfront, cloudfront-keyvaluestore, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, freetier, iam, kinesis, pricingplanmanager, s3, shield, waf, wafv2

Control-plane actions (202)

By access level: 53 List, 1 Permissions management, 53 Read, 2 Tagging, 93 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
Certificate Manager3 of 421 List, 1 Read, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditionalacm:DescribeCertificate, acm:ListCertificates, acm:RequestCertificate
CloudFrontAll 173 actions (see the CloudFront page)41 List, 1 Permissions management, 45 Read, 2 Tagging, 84 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalcloudfront:*
EC24 of 8343 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeInternetGateways, ec2:DescribeIpamPools, ec2:GetIpamPoolCidrs
ELB1 of 771 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalelasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers
Free Tier1 of 71 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalfreetier:GetAccountPlanState
IAM2 of 1902 List; 1 restricted, 0 conditionaliam:ListRoles, iam:ListServerCertificates
Kinesis2 of 421 List, 1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditionalkinesis:DescribeStream, kinesis:ListStreams
PricingPlanManagerAll 9 actions (see the PricingPlanManager page)2 Read, 7 Write; 7 restricted, 0 conditionalpricingplanmanager:ApprovePaidSubscription, pricingplanmanager:AssociateResourcesToSubscription, pricingplanmanager:CancelSubscription, pricingplanmanager:CancelSubscriptionChange, pricingplanmanager:CreateSubscription, pricingplanmanager:DisassociateResourcesFromSubscription, pricingplanmanager:GetSubscription, pricingplanmanager:ListSubscriptions, pricingplanmanager:UpdateSubscription
S31 of 1551 List; 1 restricted, 0 conditionals3:ListAllMyBuckets
Shield1 of 401 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalshield:ListProtections
WAF2 of 771 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalwaf:GetWebACL, waf:ListWebACLs
WAF V23 of 641 List, 1 Read, 1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalwafv2:CreateWebACL, wafv2:GetWebACL, wafv2:ListWebACLs
Certificate Manager: 3 actions
  • acm:DescribeCertificate (Read)
  • acm:ListCertificates (List)
  • acm:RequestCertificate (Write)
EC2: 4 actions
  • ec2:DescribeInstances (List)
  • ec2:DescribeInternetGateways (List)
  • ec2:DescribeIpamPools (List)
  • ec2:GetIpamPoolCidrs (Read)
ELB: 1 actions
  • elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers (List)
Free Tier: 1 actions
  • freetier:GetAccountPlanState (Read)
IAM: 2 actions
  • iam:ListRoles (List)
  • iam:ListServerCertificates (List)
Kinesis: 2 actions
  • kinesis:DescribeStream (Read)
  • kinesis:ListStreams (List)
S3: 1 actions
  • s3:ListAllMyBuckets (List)
Shield: 1 actions
  • shield:ListProtections (List)
WAF: 2 actions
  • waf:GetWebACL (Read)
  • waf:ListWebACLs (List)
WAF V2: 3 actions
  • wafv2:CreateWebACL (Write)
  • wafv2:GetWebACL (Read)
  • wafv2:ListWebACLs (List)

Data-plane actions (7)

By access level: 1 List, 3 Read, 3 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
CloudFront KeyValueStoreAll 6 actions (see the CloudFront KeyValueStore page)1 List, 2 Read, 3 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalcloudfront-keyvaluestore:*
CloudWatch1 of 51 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalcloudwatch:GetMetricData
CloudWatch: 1 actions
  • cloudwatch:GetMetricData (Read)

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: cloudfront (85 of 85).

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": "cfflistbuckets",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "cffullaccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:DescribeCertificate",
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "cloudfront:*",
        "cloudfront-keyvaluestore:*",
        "iam:ListServerCertificates",
        "waf:ListWebACLs",
        "waf:GetWebACL",
        "wafv2:ListWebACLs",
        "wafv2:GetWebACL",
        "wafv2:CreateWebACL",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeIpamPools",
        "ec2:GetIpamPoolCidrs",
        "pricingplanmanager:ListSubscriptions",
        "pricingplanmanager:CreateSubscription",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "freetier:GetAccountPlanState",
        "shield:ListProtections"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "cfrequestcertificate",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:RequestCertificate"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:CalledViaLast": "cloudfront.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "cffdescribestream",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kinesis:DescribeStream"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesis:*:*:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "cfflistroles",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ppmFullAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "pricingplanmanager:ApprovePaidSubscription",
        "pricingplanmanager:AssociateResourcesToSubscription",
        "pricingplanmanager:CancelSubscription",
        "pricingplanmanager:CancelSubscriptionChange",
        "pricingplanmanager:DisassociateResourcesFromSubscription",
        "pricingplanmanager:GetSubscription",
        "pricingplanmanager:UpdateSubscription"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:pricingplanmanager::*:subscription:*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v15, edited by AWS on 2026-07-30. 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/CloudFrontFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudFrontFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudFrontFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.