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ServiceQuotasFullAccess

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Summary

Provides full access to Service Quotas

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

Identity

ARN
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ServiceQuotasFullAccess
Default version
v4
Created
Last edited
Services
autoscaling, cloudformation, cloudwatch, dynamodb, elasticloadbalancing, iam, kinesis, organizations, rds, route53, servicequotas, tag

Control-plane actions (45)

By access level: 4 List, 26 Read, 2 Tagging, 13 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
EC2 Auto Scaling1 of 681 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalautoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits
CloudFormation1 of 1041 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalcloudformation:DescribeAccountLimits
CloudWatch4 of 1602 Read, 2 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditionalcloudwatch:DeleteAlarms, cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms, cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric, cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm
DynamoDB1 of 681 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionaldynamodb:DescribeLimits
ELB1 of 771 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalelasticloadbalancing:DescribeAccountLimits
IAM2 of 1901 List, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditionaliam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:GetAccountSummary
Kinesis1 of 421 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalkinesis:DescribeLimits
Organizations4 of 631 List, 2 Read, 1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditionalorganizations:DescribeAccount, organizations:DescribeOrganization, organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess, organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization
RDS1 of 1731 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalrds:DescribeAccountAttributes
Route 531 of 711 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalroute53:GetAccountLimit
Service QuotasAll 26 actions (see the Service Quotas page)15 Read, 2 Tagging, 9 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalservicequotas:*
Resource Group Tagging2 of 92 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionaltag:GetTagKeys, tag:GetTagValues
EC2 Auto Scaling: 1 actions
  • autoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits (List)
CloudFormation: 1 actions
  • cloudformation:DescribeAccountLimits (Read)
CloudWatch: 4 actions
  • cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms (Write)
  • cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms (Read)
  • cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric (Read)
  • cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm (Write)
DynamoDB: 1 actions
  • dynamodb:DescribeLimits (Read)
ELB: 1 actions
  • elasticloadbalancing:DescribeAccountLimits (Read)
IAM: 2 actions
  • iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
  • iam:GetAccountSummary (List)
Kinesis: 1 actions
  • kinesis:DescribeLimits (Read)
Organizations: 4 actions
  • organizations:DescribeAccount (Read)
  • organizations:DescribeOrganization (Read)
  • organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess (Write)
  • organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization (List)
RDS: 1 actions
  • rds:DescribeAccountAttributes (List)
Route 53: 1 actions
  • route53:GetAccountLimit (Read)
Resource Group Tagging: 2 actions
  • tag:GetTagKeys (Read)
  • tag:GetTagValues (Read)

Data-plane actions (2)

By access level: 2 Read.

Data-plane actions by service
ServiceGrantedAccess levels and limitsGranted by
CloudWatch2 of 52 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditionalcloudwatch:GetMetricData, cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics
CloudWatch: 2 actions
  • cloudwatch:GetMetricData (Read)
  • cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics (Read)

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: servicequotas (9 of 9).

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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "autoscaling:DescribeAccountLimits",
        "cloudformation:DescribeAccountLimits",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "dynamodb:DescribeLimits",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeAccountLimits",
        "iam:GetAccountSummary",
        "kinesis:DescribeLimits",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "rds:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "route53:GetAccountLimit",
        "tag:GetTagKeys",
        "tag:GetTagValues",
        "servicequotas:*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "Null": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/ServiceQuotaMonitor": "false"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
            "servicequotas.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": "servicequotas.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v4, edited by AWS on 2021-02-04. 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/ServiceQuotasFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ServiceQuotasFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ServiceQuotasFullAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.