GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy

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Summary

Grants the required permissions for compute actions in an Amazon GameLift container fleet, including access to dependencies such as Amazon S3.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy
Default version: v4
Created: 2024-11-12
Last edited: 2026-02-12
Services: gamelift, logs, s3

Control-plane actions (6)

By access level: 2 Read, 4 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
GameLift Servers	1 of 121	1 Read; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	gamelift:GetComputeAuthToken
CloudWatch Logs	4 of 133	4 Write; 4 restricted, 0 conditional	logs:CreateLogGroup, logs:CreateLogStream, logs:PutLogEvents, logs:PutRetentionPolicy
S3	1 of 155	1 Read; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	s3:GetBucketLocation

GameLift Servers: 1 actions

gamelift:GetComputeAuthToken (Read)

CloudWatch Logs: 4 actions

logs:CreateLogGroup (Write)
logs:CreateLogStream (Write)
logs:PutLogEvents (Write)
logs:PutRetentionPolicy (Write)

S3: 1 actions

s3:GetBucketLocation (Read)

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Write.

Data-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
S3	1 of 25	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	s3:PutObject

S3: 1 actions

s3:PutObject (Write)

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: scoped.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants 5 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.

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

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Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "WriteGameSessionLogsToLogStream",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:PutLogEvents",
        "logs:PutRetentionPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:gamelift-*:log-stream:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "CreateLogGroupToStoreGameSessionLogs",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "logs:CreateLogGroup",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:gamelift-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "WriteGameSessionLogsToS3Bucket",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "s3:PutObject",
        "s3:GetBucketLocation"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:s3:::gamelift-*"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "s3:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "RetrieveComputeAuthToken",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "gamelift:GetComputeAuthToken"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:gamelift:*:*:containerfleet/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2026-02-12. 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/GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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