DynamoDBReplicationServiceRolePolicy

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Summary

Permissions required by DynamoDB for cross-region data replication

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/DynamoDBReplicationServiceRolePolicy
Default version: v8
Created: 2017-11-09
Last edited: 2024-01-08
Services: account, application-autoscaling, dynamodb, iam

Control-plane actions (13)

By access level: 1 List, 7 Read, 5 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Account	1 of 20	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	account:ListRegions
Application Auto Scaling	4 of 14	2 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets, application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies, application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy, application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget
DynamoDB	7 of 68	5 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	dynamodb:DescribeLimits, dynamodb:DescribeStream, dynamodb:DescribeTable, dynamodb:DescribeTimeToLive, dynamodb:GetResourcePolicy, dynamodb:UpdateTable, dynamodb:UpdateTimeToLive
IAM	1 of 190	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole

Account: 1 actions

account:ListRegions (List)

Application Auto Scaling: 4 actions

application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets (Read)
application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies (Read)
application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy (Write)
application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget (Write)

DynamoDB: 7 actions

dynamodb:DescribeLimits (Read)
dynamodb:DescribeStream (Read)
dynamodb:DescribeTable (Read)
dynamodb:DescribeTimeToLive (Read)
dynamodb:GetResourcePolicy (Read)
dynamodb:UpdateTable (Write)
dynamodb:UpdateTimeToLive (Write)

IAM: 1 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)

Data-plane actions (7)

By access level: 4 Read, 3 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
DynamoDB	7 of 17	4 Read, 3 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	dynamodb:DeleteItem, dynamodb:GetItem, dynamodb:GetRecords, dynamodb:GetShardIterator, dynamodb:PutItem, dynamodb:Scan, dynamodb:UpdateItem

DynamoDB: 7 actions

dynamodb:DeleteItem (Write)
dynamodb:GetItem (Read)
dynamodb:GetRecords (Read)
dynamodb:GetShardIterator (Read)
dynamodb:PutItem (Write)
dynamodb:Scan (Read)
dynamodb:UpdateItem (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: No (service-linked role policy).

Why this tier

Grants 8 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
Grants data-plane write actions on a data store on all resources without conditions.

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": "DynamoDBActionsNeededForSteadyStateReplication",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "dynamodb:GetItem",
        "dynamodb:PutItem",
        "dynamodb:UpdateItem",
        "dynamodb:DeleteItem",
        "dynamodb:DescribeTable",
        "dynamodb:UpdateTable",
        "dynamodb:Scan",
        "dynamodb:DescribeStream",
        "dynamodb:GetRecords",
        "dynamodb:GetShardIterator",
        "dynamodb:DescribeTimeToLive",
        "dynamodb:UpdateTimeToLive",
        "dynamodb:DescribeLimits",
        "dynamodb:GetResourcePolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
        "application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "account:ListRegions"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DynamoDBReplicationServiceRolePolicy",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": [
            "dynamodb.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v8, edited by AWS on 2024-01-08. 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

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.