ROSASRESupportPolicy

Summary

Provides ROSA site reliability engineering (SRE) the permissions needed to initially observe, diagnose, and support AWS resources associated with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters, including the ability to change ROSA cluster node state.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ROSASRESupportPolicyCopy ARN

Default version

v6

Created

2023-06-01

Last edited

2026-02-12

Services

cloudtrail, cloudwatch, ec2, elasticloadbalancing, iam, route53, sts

Control-plane actions (52)

By access level: 30 List, 17 Read, 5 Write.

Data-plane actions (3)

By access level: 1 List, 2 Read.

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: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

• Grants 5 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, 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.

Related policies

Same service

• AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
• AIDevOpsReleaseManagementVPCPolicy
• AmazonAppStreamServiceAccess
• AmazonBioDiscoveryServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonDataZoneEnvironmentRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectDeploymentPermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneProjectRolePermissionsBoundary
• AmazonDataZoneSageMakerProvisioningRolePolicy

Same domain

• AmazonBraketJobsExecutionPolicy
• AmazonDMSVPCManagementRole
• AmazonDRSVPCManagement
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverEKSClusterScopedPolicy
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy
• AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicyV2
• AmazonEC2ContainerServiceRole
• AmazonEC2FullAccess

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": "ReadPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "sts:DecodeAuthorizationMessage"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Route53",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "route53:GetHostedZone",
        "route53:GetHostedZoneCount",
        "route53:ListHostedZones",
        "route53:ListHostedZonesByName",
        "route53:ListResourceRecordSets"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DecribeIAMRoles",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "EC2DescribeInstance",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations",
        "ec2:DescribeReservedInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeScheduledInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "VPCNetwork",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Cloudtrail",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudtrail:DescribeTrails",
        "cloudtrail:LookupEvents"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "Cloudwatch",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeVolumes",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumesModifications",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumeStatus"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeLoadBalancers",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeAccountLimits",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeInstanceHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListenerCertificates",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerPolicies",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerPolicyTypes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeSSLPolicies",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroupAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeVPC",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointConnections",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeSecurityGroups",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupReferences",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupRules",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeStaleSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeAddressesAttribute",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:DescribeAddressesAttribute",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:elastic-ip/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeInstance",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeSpotFleetInstances",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:DescribeSpotFleetInstances",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:spot-fleet-request/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "DescribeVolumeAttribute",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:DescribeVolumeAttribute",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed": "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ManageInstanceLifecycle",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:RebootInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed": "true"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v6, 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 iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ROSASRESupportPolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ROSASRESupportPolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ROSASRESupportPolicy

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

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "service_role_rosasresupportpolicy" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ROSASRESupportPolicy"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("service-role/ROSASRESupportPolicy"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for ROSASRESupportPolicy
• Report a data issue