ConfigConformsServiceRolePolicy

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Summary

Policy needed for AWSConfig to create conformance packs

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/ConfigConformsServiceRolePolicy
Default version: v6
Created: 2019-07-25
Last edited: 2023-01-12
Services: cloudformation, cloudwatch, config, iam, s3, ssm

Control-plane actions (24)

By access level: 4 List, 1 Permissions management, 9 Read, 10 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudFormation	12 of 104	2 List, 1 Permissions management, 5 Read, 4 Write; 12 restricted, 0 conditional	cloudformation:CreateStack, cloudformation:DeleteStack, cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents, cloudformation:DescribeStackResource, cloudformation:DescribeStackResources, cloudformation:DescribeStacks, cloudformation:GetStackPolicy, cloudformation:ListStackResources, cloudformation:SetStackPolicy, cloudformation:UpdateStack, cloudformation:UpdateTerminationProtection, cloudformation:ValidateTemplate
Config	6 of 102	2 List, 4 Write; 5 restricted, 0 conditional	config:DeleteConfigRule, config:DeleteRemediationConfiguration, config:DescribeConfigRules, config:DescribeRemediationConfigurations, config:PutConfigRule, config:PutRemediationConfigurations
IAM	3 of 190	1 Read, 2 Write; 3 restricted, 2 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:GetRole, iam:PassRole
S3	1 of 155	1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetBucketAcl
Systems Manager	2 of 164	2 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ssm:DescribeDocument, ssm:GetDocument

CloudFormation: 12 actions

cloudformation:CreateStack (Write)
cloudformation:DeleteStack (Write)
cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackResource (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStackResources (Read)
cloudformation:DescribeStacks (List)
cloudformation:GetStackPolicy (Read)
cloudformation:ListStackResources (List)
cloudformation:SetStackPolicy (Permissions management)
cloudformation:UpdateStack (Write)
cloudformation:UpdateTerminationProtection (Write)
cloudformation:ValidateTemplate (Read)

Config: 6 actions

config:DeleteConfigRule (Write)
config:DeleteRemediationConfiguration (Write)
config:DescribeConfigRules (List)
config:DescribeRemediationConfigurations (List)
config:PutConfigRule (Write)
config:PutRemediationConfigurations (Write)

IAM: 3 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:GetRole (Read)
iam:PassRole (Write)

S3: 1 actions

s3:GetBucketAcl (Read)

Systems Manager: 2 actions

ssm:DescribeDocument (Read)
ssm:GetDocument (Read)

Data-plane actions (4)

By access level: 1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 2 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
CloudWatch	1 of 5	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	cloudwatch:PutMetricData
S3	3 of 25	1 Permissions management, 1 Read, 1 Write; 3 restricted, 0 conditional	s3:GetObject, s3:PutObject, s3:PutObjectAcl

CloudWatch: 1 actions

cloudwatch:PutMetricData (Write)

S3: 3 actions

s3:GetObject (Read)
s3:PutObject (Write)
s3:PutObjectAcl (Permissions management)

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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 14 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
Grants data-plane write actions on a data store, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.
Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).

Guidance

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Frequently asked questions

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "config:PutConfigRule",
        "config:DeleteConfigRule"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:config:*:*:config-rule/aws-service-rule/config-conforms.amazonaws.com*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "config:DescribeConfigRules"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "config:DescribeRemediationConfigurations",
        "config:DeleteRemediationConfiguration",
        "config:PutRemediationConfigurations"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:config:*:*:remediation-configuration/aws-service-remediation-configuration/config-conforms.amazonaws.com*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/config-conforms.amazonaws.com/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/remediation.config.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForConfigRemediation"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/remediation.config.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForConfigRemediation",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "remediation.config.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "ssm.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ssm:DescribeDocument",
        "ssm:GetDocument"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:PutObjectAcl",
        "s3:GetObject",
        "s3:GetBucketAcl"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::awsconfigconforms*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudformation:CreateStack",
        "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:GetStackPolicy",
        "cloudformation:SetStackPolicy",
        "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
        "cloudformation:UpdateTerminationProtection",
        "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/awsconfigconforms-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "cloudwatch:namespace": "AWS/Config"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v6, edited by AWS on 2023-01-12. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

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