Tagging customer managed policies - AWS Identity and Access Management
Permissions required for tagging customer managed policiesManaging tags on IAM customer managed policies (console)Managing tags on IAM customer managed policies (AWS CLI or AWS API)

Tagging customer managed policies

You can use IAM tag key-value pairs to add custom attributes to your customer managed policies. For example, to tag a policy with department information, you can add the tag key Department and the tag value eng. Or, you might want to tag policies to indicate that they are for a specific environment, such as Environment = lab. You can use tags to control access to resources or to control what tags can be attached to a resource. To learn more about using tags to control access, see Controlling access to and for IAM users and roles using tags.

You can also use tags in AWS STS to add custom attributes when you assume a role or federate a user. For more information, see Passing session tags in AWS STS.

Permissions required for tagging customer managed policies

You must configure permissions to allow an IAM entity (users or roles) to tag customer managed policies. You can specify one or all of the following IAM tag actions in an IAM policy:

  • iam:ListPolicyTags

  • iam:TagPolicy

  • iam:UntagPolicy

To allow an IAM entity (user or role) to add, list, or remove a tag for a customer managed policy

Add the following statement to the permissions policy for the IAM entity that needs to manage tags. Use your account number and replace <policyname> with the name of the policy whose tags need to be managed. To learn how to create a policy using this example JSON policy document, see Creating policies using the JSON editor.

{
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
        "iam:ListPolicyTags",
        "iam:TagPolicy",
        "iam:UntagPolicy"
    ],
    "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::<account-number>:policy/<policyname>"
}
To allow an IAM entity (user or role) to add a tag to a specific customer managed policy

Add the following statement to the permissions policy for the IAM entity that needs to add, but not remove, tags for a specific policy.

Note

The iam:TagPolicy action requires that you also include the iam:ListPolicyTags action.

To use this policy, replace <policyname> with the name of the policy whose tags need to be managed. To learn how to create a policy using this example JSON policy document, see Creating policies using the JSON editor.

{
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
        "iam:ListPolicyTags",
        "iam:TagPolicy"
    ],
    "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::<account-number>:policy/<policyname>"
}

Alternatively, you can use an AWS managed policy such as IAMFullAccess to provide full access to IAM.

Managing tags on IAM customer managed policies (console)

You can manage tags for IAM customer managed policies from the AWS Management Console.

To manage tags on customer managed policies (console)

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.

  2. In the navigation pane of the console, choose Policies and then choose the name of the customer managed policy that you want to edit.

  3. Choose the Tags tab and then choose Manage tags.

  4. Add or remove tags to complete the set of tags. Then choose Save changes.

Managing tags on IAM customer managed policies (AWS CLI or AWS API)

You can list, attach, or remove tags for IAM customer managed policies. You can use the AWS CLI or the AWS API to manage tags for IAM customer managed policies.

To list the tags currently attached to an IAM customer managed policy (AWS CLI or AWS API)
To attach tags to an IAM customer managed policy(AWS CLI or AWS API)
To remove tags from an IAM customer managed policy (AWS CLI or AWS API)

For information about attaching tags to resources for other AWS services, see the documentation for those services.

For information about using tags to set more granular permissions with IAM permissions policies, see IAM policy elements: Variables and tags.