Amazon SQS API permissions: Actions and resource reference

When you set up Access control and write permissions policies that you can attach to an IAM identity, you can use the following table as a reference. The table lists each Amazon Simple Queue Service action, the corresponding actions for which you can grant permissions to perform the action, and the AWS resource for which you can grant the permissions.

Specify the actions in the policy's Action field, and the resource value in the policy's Resource field. To specify an action, use the sqs: prefix followed by the action name (for example, sqs:CreateQueue).

Currently, Amazon SQS supports the global condition context keys available in IAM.

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Amazon Simple Queue Service API and required permissions for actions
Amazon SQS actions	Required permissions	Resource
AddPermission	sqs:AddPermission	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
CancelMessageMoveTask	sqs:CancelMessageMoveTask	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:dlq_queue_name
	sqs:ReceiveMessage
	sqs:DeleteMessage
	sqs:GetQueueAttributes
ChangeMessageVisibility	sqs:ChangeMessageVisibility	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
ChangeMessageVisibilityBatch
CreateQueue	sqs:CreateQueue	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
DeleteMessage	sqs:DeleteMessage	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
DeleteMessageBatch
DeleteQueue	sqs:DeleteQueue	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
GetQueueAttributes	sqs:GetQueueAttributes	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
GetQueueUrl	sqs:GetQueueUrl	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
ListDeadLetterSourceQueues	sqs:ListDeadLetterSourceQueues	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
ListMessageMoveTasks	sqs:ListMessageMoveTasks	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:dlq_queue_name
	sqs:GetQueueAttributes
ListQueues	sqs:ListQueues	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:*
ListQueueTags	sqs:ListQueueTags	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
PurgeQueue	sqs:PurgeQueue	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
ReceiveMessage	sqs:ReceiveMessage	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
RemovePermission	sqs:RemovePermission	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
SendMessage	sqs:SendMessage	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
SendMessageBatch
SetQueueAttributes	sqs:SetQueueAttributes	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
StartMessageMoveTask	sqs:StartMessageMoveTask	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:source_queue_name
	sqs:ReceiveMessage
	sqs:DeleteMessage
	sqs:GetQueueAttributes
	sqs:SendMessage	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:source_queue_name
TagQueue	sqs:TagQueue	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name
UntagQueue	sqs:UntagQueue	arn:aws:sqs:region:account_id:queue_name