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CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess

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Summary

Allows Amazon CloudWatch Events to relay events to the streams in AWS Kinesis Streams in your account.

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

Identity

ARN
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess
Default version
v1
Created
Last edited
Services
kinesis

Control-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
Kinesis1 of 51 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalkinesis:PutRecord
Kinesis: 1 actions
  • kinesis:PutRecord (Write)

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 1 write, tagging or permissions-management action, 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.

Related policies

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": "CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kinesis:PutRecord"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2016-01-14. 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/service-role/CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_cloudwatcheventsinvocationaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/CloudWatchEventsInvocationAccess"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.