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IAM Policy Map

CloudWatch

Prefix cloudwatch, 165 actions · Domain Monitoring & Observability

114 AWS managed policies. 14 have reviewed guidance; the rest have authoritative permission data pending editorial review. 66 are service-linked role policies, shown with permission data only.

User access (22)

Operator and limited (12)

Service roles (14)

Service-linked roles (66)

Also grants CloudWatch actions (200)

Actions (165)

CloudWatch actions that managed policies grant
ActionAccess levelPolicies granting without limitsPolicies granting with resource or condition limits
cloudwatch:AssumeAccessProfilePermissions management152
cloudwatch:BatchGetServiceLevelIndicatorReportRead171
cloudwatch:BatchGetServiceLevelObjectiveBudgetReportRead171
cloudwatch:CallWithBearerTokenWrite161
cloudwatch:CreateAccessGrantPermissions management152
cloudwatch:CreateAccessProfilePermissions management152
cloudwatch:CreateAlertWrite152
cloudwatch:CreateDomainWrite151
cloudwatch:CreateDomainAccessGrantForOrganizationPermissions management152
cloudwatch:CreateDomainForOrganizationWrite151
cloudwatch:CreateIngestionEndpointWrite151
cloudwatch:CreateIntegrationWrite153
cloudwatch:CreateOmniDashboardWrite152
cloudwatch:CreateOmniThreadWrite152
cloudwatch:CreateOneTimeDeepLinkCodeWrite161
cloudwatch:CreateResourceMetricsConfigurationWrite151
cloudwatch:CreateServiceLevelObjectiveWrite151
cloudwatch:CreateSpaceWrite151
cloudwatch:CreateViewWrite152
cloudwatch:DeleteAccessGrantPermissions management152
cloudwatch:DeleteAccessProfilePermissions management152
cloudwatch:DeleteAlarmMuteRuleWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteAlarmsWrite4620
cloudwatch:DeleteAlertWrite152
cloudwatch:DeleteAnomalyDetectorWrite161
cloudwatch:DeleteDashboardsWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteDomainWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteDomainAccessGrantForOrganizationPermissions management152
cloudwatch:DeleteDomainForOrganizationWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteIngestionEndpointWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteInsightRulesWrite152
cloudwatch:DeleteIntegrationWrite153
cloudwatch:DeleteMetricDataQueryDefinitionWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteMetricStreamWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteOmniDashboardWrite152
cloudwatch:DeleteOmniThreadWrite152
cloudwatch:DeletePipelineRuleWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteResourceMetricsConfigurationWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteServiceLevelObjectiveWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteSpaceWrite151
cloudwatch:DeleteViewWrite152
cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistoryRead442
cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsRead11116
cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetricRead501
cloudwatch:DescribeAnomalyDetectorsRead401
cloudwatch:DescribeInsightRulesRead391
cloudwatch:DetectGroupOutliersRead161
cloudwatch:DisableAlarmActionsWrite171
cloudwatch:DisableInsightRulesWrite151
cloudwatch:EnableAlarmActionsWrite173
cloudwatch:EnableInsightRulesWrite151
cloudwatch:EnableTopologyDiscoveryWrite151
cloudwatch:GenerateQueryRead221
cloudwatch:GenerateQueryResultsSummaryRead181
cloudwatch:GetAccessGrantRead272
cloudwatch:GetAccessProfileRead272
cloudwatch:GetAgentGraphRead271
cloudwatch:GetAlarmMuteRuleRead312
cloudwatch:GetAlertRead282
cloudwatch:GetContextGraphRead282
cloudwatch:GetDashboardRead363
cloudwatch:GetDatasetRead281
cloudwatch:GetDomainRead272
cloudwatch:GetDomainAccessGrantForOrganizationRead272
cloudwatch:GetDomainForOrganizationRead271
cloudwatch:GetIngestionEndpointRead271
cloudwatch:GetInsightRuleReportRead324
cloudwatch:GetIntegrationRead272
cloudwatch:GetIntelligenceConfigurationRead282
cloudwatch:GetMetricDataRead1236
cloudwatch:GetMetricDataQueryDefinitionRead271
cloudwatch:GetMetricStatisticsRead972
cloudwatch:GetMetricStreamRead343
cloudwatch:GetMetricWidgetImageRead282
cloudwatch:GetOTelEnrichmentRead283
cloudwatch:GetOmniDashboardRead272
cloudwatch:GetOmniThreadRead272
cloudwatch:GetPreferencesRead272
cloudwatch:GetProfileRecordsRead281
cloudwatch:GetRecordsRead282
cloudwatch:GetResourceMetricsConfigurationRead271
cloudwatch:GetServiceRead291
cloudwatch:GetServiceDataRead271
cloudwatch:GetServiceLevelObjectiveRead291
cloudwatch:GetSpaceRead282
cloudwatch:GetSpaceCredentialsRead271
cloudwatch:GetSpaceCredentialsForOrganizationRead271
cloudwatch:GetSpaceDataAccessRead272
cloudwatch:GetTelemetryQueryResultsRead282
cloudwatch:GetTopologyDiscoveryStatusRead271
cloudwatch:GetTopologyMapRead271
cloudwatch:GetViewRead272
cloudwatch:InvokeIntegrationWrite152
cloudwatch:ListAccessGrantsList292
cloudwatch:ListAccessProfilesList292
cloudwatch:ListAlarmMuteRulesList332
cloudwatch:ListAlertContributorsList291
cloudwatch:ListAlertsList292
cloudwatch:ListDashboardsList384
cloudwatch:ListDomainAccessGrantsForOrganizationList292
cloudwatch:ListDomainsList291
cloudwatch:ListEntitiesForMetricList291
cloudwatch:ListIngestionEndpointsList291
cloudwatch:ListIntegrationsList293
cloudwatch:ListManagedInsightRulesRead343
cloudwatch:ListMetricDataQueryDefinitionsList291
cloudwatch:ListMetricStreamsList343
cloudwatch:ListMetricsList825
cloudwatch:ListOmniDashboardsList292
cloudwatch:ListOmniThreadsList292
cloudwatch:ListServiceLevelObjectivesList291
cloudwatch:ListServicesList291
cloudwatch:ListSpaceAccessList291
cloudwatch:ListSpacesList292
cloudwatch:ListSpacesForOrganizationList292
cloudwatch:ListTagsForResourceList344
cloudwatch:ListTelemetryFieldsList291
cloudwatch:ListTelemetryQuerySessionsList292
cloudwatch:ListViewsList292
cloudwatch:PutAlarmMuteRuleWrite161
cloudwatch:PutAnomalyDetectorWrite171
cloudwatch:PutCompositeAlarmWrite161
cloudwatch:PutDashboardWrite163
cloudwatch:PutInsightRuleWrite162
cloudwatch:PutIntelligenceConfigurationWrite162
cloudwatch:PutLogAlarmWrite161
cloudwatch:PutManagedInsightRulesWrite161
cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarmWrite5422
cloudwatch:PutMetricDataWrite3590
cloudwatch:PutMetricDataQueryDefinitionWrite161
cloudwatch:PutMetricStreamWrite161
cloudwatch:PutPipelineRuleWrite161
cloudwatch:PutProfileRecordsWrite183
cloudwatch:PutRecordsWrite161
cloudwatch:QueryTracesWrite151
cloudwatch:SearchPrincipalsWrite152
cloudwatch:SetAlarmStateWrite161
cloudwatch:StartMetricStreamsWrite151
cloudwatch:StartOTelEnrichmentWrite152
cloudwatch:StartOmniThreadSessionWrite152
cloudwatch:StartTelemetryQueryWrite161
cloudwatch:StartTelemetryQuerySessionWrite162
cloudwatch:StopMetricStreamsWrite151
cloudwatch:StopOTelEnrichmentWrite151
cloudwatch:StopTelemetryQueryWrite162
cloudwatch:StopTelemetryQuerySessionWrite162
cloudwatch:SubmitAlarmFeedbackWrite151
cloudwatch:SubmitFeedbackWrite152
cloudwatch:TagResourceTagging167
cloudwatch:UntagResourceTagging163
cloudwatch:UpdateAccessProfilePermissions management152
cloudwatch:UpdateAlertWrite152
cloudwatch:UpdateDomainWrite151
cloudwatch:UpdateDomainForOrganizationWrite151
cloudwatch:UpdateIngestionEndpointWrite151
cloudwatch:UpdateIntegrationWrite152
cloudwatch:UpdateOTelEnrichmentWrite151
cloudwatch:UpdateOmniDashboardWrite152
cloudwatch:UpdateOmniThreadWrite152
cloudwatch:UpdatePreferencesWrite152
cloudwatch:UpdateResourceMetricsConfigurationWrite151
cloudwatch:UpdateServiceLevelObjectiveWrite151
cloudwatch:UpdateSpaceWrite152
cloudwatch:UpdateViewWrite152