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CloudWatchSyntheticsReadOnlyAccess

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Summary

Provides read only access to CloudWatch Synthetics.

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

Identity

ARN
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchSyntheticsReadOnlyAccess
Default version
v2
Created
Last edited
Services
synthetics

Control-plane actions (10)

By access level: 3 List, 7 Read.

Control-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
CloudWatch Synthetics10 of 223 List, 7 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalsynthetics:Describe*, synthetics:Get*, synthetics:List*
CloudWatch Synthetics: 10 actions
  • synthetics:DescribeCanaries (Read)
  • synthetics:DescribeCanariesLastRun (Read)
  • synthetics:DescribeRuntimeVersions (Read)
  • synthetics:GetCanary (Read)
  • synthetics:GetCanaryRuns (Read)
  • synthetics:GetGroup (Read)
  • synthetics:ListAssociatedGroups (List)
  • synthetics:ListGroupResources (List)
  • synthetics:ListGroups (List)
  • synthetics:ListTagsForResource (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: 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.

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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "synthetics:Describe*",
        "synthetics:Get*",
        "synthetics:List*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v2, edited by AWS on 2020-03-06. 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/CloudWatchSyntheticsReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchSyntheticsReadOnlyAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/CloudWatchSyntheticsReadOnlyAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.