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IAM Policy Map

EKS

Prefix eks, 74 actions · Domain Containers

16 AWS managed policies. 0 have reviewed guidance; the rest have authoritative permission data pending editorial review. 9 are service-linked role policies, shown with permission data only.

User access (3)

Operator and limited (1)

Service roles (3)

Service-linked roles (9)

Also grants EKS actions (36)

Actions (74)

EKS actions that managed policies grant
ActionAccess levelPolicies granting without limitsPolicies granting with resource or condition limits
eks:AccessKubernetesApiRead71
eks:ActivateCertificateAuthorityWrite42
eks:AssociateAccessPolicyWrite48
eks:AssociateEncryptionConfigWrite41
eks:AssociateIdentityProviderConfigWrite41
eks:CancelUpdateWrite41
eks:CreateAccessEntryWrite47
eks:CreateAddonWrite46
eks:CreateCapabilityWrite41
eks:CreateCertificateAuthorityWrite42
eks:CreateClusterWrite43
eks:CreateEksAnywhereSubscriptionWrite41
eks:CreateFargateProfileWrite42
eks:CreateNodegroupWrite42
eks:CreatePodIdentityAssociationWrite45
eks:DeleteAccessEntryWrite46
eks:DeleteAddonWrite44
eks:DeleteCapabilityWrite41
eks:DeleteCertificateAuthorityWrite42
eks:DeleteClusterWrite42
eks:DeleteEksAnywhereSubscriptionWrite41
eks:DeleteFargateProfileWrite41
eks:DeleteNodegroupWrite41
eks:DeletePodIdentityAssociationWrite43
eks:DeregisterClusterWrite41
eks:DescribeAccessEntryRead209
eks:DescribeAddonRead198
eks:DescribeAddonConfigurationRead141
eks:DescribeAddonVersionsRead152
eks:DescribeCapabilityRead153
eks:DescribeCertificateAuthorityRead101
eks:DescribeClusterRead3113
eks:DescribeClusterVersionsRead131
eks:DescribeEksAnywhereSubscriptionRead131
eks:DescribeFargateProfileRead214
eks:DescribeIdentityProviderConfigRead163
eks:DescribeInsightRead131
eks:DescribeInsightsRefreshRead111
eks:DescribeNodegroupRead245
eks:DescribePodIdentityAssociationRead198
eks:DescribeUpdateRead133
eks:DisassociateAccessPolicyWrite46
eks:DisassociateIdentityProviderConfigWrite41
eks:ListAccessEntriesList204
eks:ListAccessPoliciesList131
eks:ListAddonsList194
eks:ListAssociatedAccessPoliciesList199
eks:ListCapabilitiesList153
eks:ListCertificateAuthoritiesList101
eks:ListClustersList246
eks:ListDashboardDataRead111
eks:ListDashboardResourcesRead111
eks:ListEksAnywhereSubscriptionsList141
eks:ListFargateProfilesList213
eks:ListIdentityProviderConfigsList163
eks:ListInsightsList131
eks:ListNodegroupsList243
eks:ListPodIdentityAssociationsList196
eks:ListTagsForResourceRead174
eks:ListUpdatesList141
eks:MutateViaKubernetesApiWrite41
eks:RegisterClusterWrite41
eks:StartInsightsRefreshWrite41
eks:TagResourceTagging54
eks:UntagResourceTagging51
eks:UpdateAccessEntryWrite41
eks:UpdateAddonWrite45
eks:UpdateCapabilityWrite41
eks:UpdateClusterConfigWrite42
eks:UpdateClusterVersionWrite51
eks:UpdateEksAnywhereSubscriptionWrite41
eks:UpdateNodegroupConfigWrite41
eks:UpdateNodegroupVersionWrite41
eks:UpdatePodIdentityAssociationWrite44