EC2InstanceConnect

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Summary

Allows customers to call EC2 Instance Connect to publish ephemeral keys to their EC2 instances and connect via ssh or the EC2 Instance Connect CLI.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/EC2InstanceConnect
Default version: v1
Created: 2019-06-27
Last edited: 2019-06-27
Services: ec2, ec2-instance-connect

Control-plane actions (2)

By access level: 1 List, 1 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	1 of 834	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeInstances
EC2 Instance Connect	1 of 3	1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2-instance-connect:SendSSHPublicKey

EC2: 1 actions

ec2:DescribeInstances (List)

EC2 Instance Connect: 1 actions

ec2-instance-connect:SendSSHPublicKey (Write)

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 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.

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": "EC2InstanceConnect",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2-instance-connect:SendSSHPublicKey"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2019-06-27. 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/EC2InstanceConnect
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/EC2InstanceConnect
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/EC2InstanceConnect

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/EC2InstanceConnect

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "ec2instanceconnect" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/EC2InstanceConnect"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("EC2InstanceConnect"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.