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Access Control for Performance Insights

To access Performance Insights, you must have the appropriate permissions from AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). There are two options available for granting access:

1. Attach the AmazonRDSFullAccess managed policy to an IAM user or role.

2. Create a custom IAM policy and attach it to an IAM user or role.

AmazonRDSFullAccess Managed Policy

AmazonRDSFullAccess is an AWS-managed policy that grants access to all of the Amazon RDS API actions. The policy also grants access to related services that are used by the Amazon RDS console—for example, event notifications using Amazon SNS.

In addition, AmazonRDSFullAccess contains all the permissions needed for using Performance Insights. If you attach this policy to an IAM user or role, the recipient can use Performance Insights, in addition to all of the other features of the Amazon RDS console.

Using a Custom IAM Policy

For users who don’t have full access with the AmazonRDSFullAccess policy, you can grant access to Performance Insights by creating or modifying a user-managed IAM policy. When you attach the policy to an IAM user or role, the recipient can use Performance Insights.

To create a custom policy

1. Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Policies.

3. Choose Create policy.

4. On the Create Policy page, choose the JSON tab.

5. Copy and paste the following.

   {
       "Version": "2012-10-17",
       "Statement": [
           {
               "Effect": "Allow",
               "Action": "pi:*",
               "Resource": "arn:aws:pi:*:*:metrics/rds/*"
           }
       ]
   }

6. Choose Review policy

   Note

   Currently, when you enter this policy, the Visual editor tab displays a warning that the pi resource is not recognized. You can ignore this warning.

7. Provide a name for the policy and optionally a description, and then choose Create policy.

You can now attach the policy to an IAM user or role. The following procedure assumes that you already have an IAM user available for this purpose.

To attach the policy to an IAM user

1. Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Users.

3. Choose an existing user from the list.

   Important

   To use Performance Insights, the user must have access to Amazon RDS in addition to the custom policy. For example, the AmazonRDSReadOnlyAccess predefined policy provides read-only access to Amazon RDS. For more information, see AWS Managed (Predefined) Policies for Amazon RDS.

4. On the Summary page, choose Add permissions.

5. Choose Attach existing policies directly. For Search, type the first few characters of your policy name, as shown following.

   

6. Choose your policy, and then choose Next: Review.

7. Choose Add permissions.