CloudWatchAutomaticDashboardsAccess

Summary

Provides access to the non-CloudWatch APIs used to display CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards, including the contents of objects such as Lambda functions

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchAutomaticDashboardsAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v5

Created

2019-07-23

Last edited

2026-08-07

Services

apigateway, autoscaling, cloudfront, dynamodb, ec2, ecs, elasticache, elasticbeanstalk, elasticfilesystem, elasticloadbalancing, kinesis, lambda, rds, resource-groups, route53, s3, sns, sqs, synthetics, tag

Control-plane actions (36)

By access level: 20 List, 16 Read.

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 List.

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 only List and Read actions.

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.

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• AmazonFISServiceRolePolicy
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Same domain

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• AmazonAPIGatewayInvokeFullAccess
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• AmazonECSInfrastructureRoleforExpressGatewayServices
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• AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForLoadBalancers
• AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForVpcLattice
• AmazonEKSClusterPolicy

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": [
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "cloudfront:GetDistribution",
        "cloudfront:ListDistributions",
        "dynamodb:DescribeTable",
        "dynamodb:ListTables",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ecs:DescribeClusters",
        "ecs:DescribeContainerInstances",
        "ecs:ListClusters",
        "ecs:ListContainerInstances",
        "ecs:ListServices",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
        "elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEnvironments",
        "elasticfilesystem:DescribeFileSystems",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "kinesis:DescribeStream",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "lambda:GetFunction",
        "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "lambda:ListTags",
        "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
        "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
        "resource-groups:ListGroupResources",
        "resource-groups:ListGroups",
        "route53:GetHealthCheck",
        "route53:ListHealthChecks",
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
        "s3:ListBucket",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
        "sqs:GetQueueUrl",
        "sqs:ListQueues",
        "synthetics:DescribeCanariesLastRun",
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "apigateway:GET"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:apigateway:*::/restapis*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v5, edited by AWS on 2026-08-07. 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/CloudWatchAutomaticDashboardsAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchAutomaticDashboardsAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchAutomaticDashboardsAccess

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for CloudWatchAutomaticDashboardsAccess
• Report a data issue