AWS managed policies for Amazon CloudFront

To add permissions to users, groups, and roles, it’s easier to use AWS managed policies than to write policies yourself. It takes time and expertise to create IAM customer managed policies that provide your users with only the permissions they need. To get started quickly, you can use our AWS managed policies. These policies cover common use cases and are available in your AWS account. For more information about AWS managed policies, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS services maintain and update AWS managed policies. You can’t change the permissions in AWS managed policies. Services occasionally add additional permissions to an AWS managed policy to support new features. This type of update affects all identities (users, groups, and roles) where the policy is attached. Services are most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new feature is launched or when new permissions become available. Services do not remove permissions from an AWS managed policy, so policy updates won’t break your existing permissions.

Additionally, AWS supports managed policies for job functions that span multiple services. For example, the ReadOnlyAccess AWS managed policy provides read-only access to all AWS services and resources. When a service launches a new feature, AWS adds read-only permissions for new operations and resources. For a list and descriptions of job function policies, see AWS managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy allows read-only permissions to CloudFront resources. It also allows read-only permissions to other AWS service resources that are related to CloudFront and that are visible in the CloudFront console.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

• cloudfront:Describe* – Allows principals to get information about metadata about CloudFront resources.

• cloudfront:Get* – Allows principals to get detailed information and configurations for CloudFront resources.

• cloudfront:List* – Allows principals to get lists of CloudFront resources.

• cloudfront-keyvaluestore:Describe* - Allows principals to get information about the key value store.

• cloudfront-keyvaluestore:Get* - Allows principals to get detailed information and configurations for the key value store.

• cloudfront-keyvaluestore:List* - Allows principals to get lists of the key value stores.

• acm:ListCertificates – Allows principals to get a list of ACM certificates.

• iam:ListServerCertificates – Allows principals to get a list of server certificates stored in IAM.

• route53:List* – Allows principals to get lists of Route 53 resources.

• waf:ListWebACLs – Allows principals to get a list of web ACLs in AWS WAF.

• waf:GetWebACL – Allows principals to get detailed information about web ACLs in AWS WAF.

• wafv2:ListWebACLs – Allows principals to get a list of web ACLs in AWS WAF.

• wafv2:GetWebACL – Allows principals to get detailed information about web ACLs in AWS WAF.

To view the permissions for this policy, see CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: CloudFrontFullAccess

You can attach the CloudFrontFullAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy allows administrative permissions to CloudFront resources. It also allows read-only permissions to other AWS service resources that are related to CloudFront and that are visible in the CloudFront console.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

• s3:ListAllMyBuckets – Allows principals to get a list of all Amazon S3 buckets.

• acm:ListCertificates – Allows principals to get a list of ACM certificates.

• cloudfront:* – Allows principals to perform all actions on all CloudFront resources.

• cloudfront-keyvaluestore:* - Allows principals to perform all actions on the key value store.

• iam:ListServerCertificates – Allows principals to get a list of server certificates stored in IAM.

• waf:ListWebACLs – Allows principals to get a list of web ACLs in AWS WAF.

• waf:GetWebACL – Allows principals to get detailed information about web ACLs in AWS WAF.

• wafv2:ListWebACLs – Allows principals to get a list of web ACLs in AWS WAF.

• wafv2:GetWebACL – Allows principals to get detailed information about web ACLs in AWS WAF.

• kinesis:ListStreams – Allows principals to get a list of Amazon Kinesis streams.

• ec2:DescribeInstances - Allows principals to get detailed information about instances in Amazon EC2.

• elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers - Allows principals to get detailed information about load balancers in Elastic Load Balancing.

• ec2:DescribeInternetGateways - Allows principals to get detailed information about internet gateways in Amazon EC2.

• kinesis:DescribeStream – Allows principals to get detailed information about a Kinesis stream.

• iam:ListRoles – Allows principals to get a list of roles in IAM.

To view the permissions for this policy, see CloudFrontFullAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

Important

If you want CloudFront to create and save access logs, you need to grant additional permissions. For more information, see Permissions.

AWS managed policy: AWSCloudFrontLogger

You can’t attach the AWSCloudFrontLogger policy to your IAM identities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows CloudFront to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked roles for Lambda@Edge.

This policy allows CloudFront to push log files to Amazon CloudWatch. For details about the permissions included in this policy, see Service-linked role permissions for CloudFront logger.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSCloudFrontLogger in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSLambdaReplicator

You can’t attach the AWSLambdaReplicator policy to your IAM identities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows CloudFront to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked roles for Lambda@Edge.

This policy allows CloudFront to create, delete, and disable functions in AWS Lambda to replicate Lambda@Edge functions to AWS Regions. For details about the permissions included in this policy, see Service-linked role permissions for Lambda replicator.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSLambdaReplicator in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSCloudFrontVPCOriginServiceRolePolicy

You can't attach the AWSCloudFrontVPCOriginServiceRolePolicy policy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows CloudFront to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Use service-linked roles for CloudFront.

This policy allows CloudFront to manage EC2 elastic network interfaces and security groups on your behalf. For details about the permissions included in this policy, see Service-linked role permissions for CloudFront VPC Origins.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSCloudFrontVPCOriginServiceRolePolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

CloudFront updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for CloudFront since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the CloudFront Document history page.

Change	Description	Date
CloudFrontFullAccess – Update to existing policy	CloudFront added new permissions for Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing. The new permissions allow CloudFront to get detailed information about load balancers in Elastic Load Balancing and instances and internet gateways in Amazon EC2.	November 20, 2024
AWSCloudFrontVPCOriginServiceRolePolicy – New policy	CloudFront added a new policy. This policy allows CloudFront to manage EC2 elastic network interfaces and security groups on your behalf.	November 20, 2024
CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess and CloudFrontFullAccess - Update to two existing policies.	CloudFront added new permissions for key value stores. The new permissions allow users to get information about, and take action on, key value stores.	December 19, 2023
CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess – Update to an existing policy	CloudFront added a new permission to describe CloudFront Functions. This permission allows the user, group, or role to read information and metadata about a function, but not the function’s code.	September 8, 2021
CloudFront started tracking changes	CloudFront started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.	September 8, 2021