ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole

Summary

Permissions to allow the AWS Server Migration Service to create and update relevant AWS resources into the customer's AWS account for launching migrated servers and applications.

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

Identity

ARN

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

Default version

v4

Created

2018-11-26

Last edited

2020-10-15

Services

applicationinsights, cloudformation, ec2, iam, resource-groups

Control-plane actions (235)

By access level: 204 List, 11 Read, 1 Tagging, 19 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: mixed.

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

Why this tier

• Grants 20 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).

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

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• 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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DisassociateIamInstanceProfile",
        "ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile",
        "ec2:ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": "ec2.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "applicationinsights:Describe*",
        "applicationinsights:List*",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "applicationinsights:CreateApplication",
        "applicationinsights:CreateComponent",
        "applicationinsights:UpdateApplication",
        "applicationinsights:DeleteApplication",
        "applicationinsights:UpdateComponentConfiguration",
        "applicationinsights:DeleteComponent"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:applicationinsights:*:*:application/resource-group/sms-app-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "resource-groups:CreateGroup",
        "resource-groups:GetGroup",
        "resource-groups:UpdateGroup",
        "resource-groups:DeleteGroup"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:resource-groups:*:*:group/sms-app-*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id": "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-insights.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationInsights"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "application-insights.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2020-10-15. 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/ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole
• Report a data issue