Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Elastic Container Service

Amazon Elastic Container Service (service prefix: ecs) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

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Topics

Actions defined by Amazon Elastic Container Service
Resource types defined by Amazon Elastic Container Service
Condition keys for Amazon Elastic Container Service

Actions defined by Amazon Elastic Container Service

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys
CreateCapacityProvider	Grants permission to create a new capacity provider. Capacity providers are associated with an Amazon ECS cluster and are used in capacity provider strategies to facilitate cluster auto scaling	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateCluster	Grants permission to create a new Amazon ECS cluster	Write	cluster*
CreateCluster	Grants permission to create a new Amazon ECS cluster	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys ecs:capacity-provider
CreateService	Grants permission to run and maintain a desired number of tasks from a specified task definition via service creation	Write	service*
CreateService		Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys ecs:cluster ecs:capacity-provider ecs:task-definition ecs:enable-ebs-volumes ecs:enable-execute-command ecs:enable-service-connect ecs:namespace
CreateTaskSet	Grants permission to create a new Amazon ECS task set	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys ecs:cluster ecs:capacity-provider ecs:service ecs:task-definition
DeleteAccountSetting	Grants permission to modify the ARN and resource ID format of a resource for a specified IAM user, IAM role, or the root user for an account. You can specify whether the new ARN and resource ID format are disabled for new resources that are created	Write		ecs:account-setting
DeleteAttributes	Grants permission to delete one or more custom attributes from an Amazon ECS resource	Write	container-instance*
DeleteAttributes		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
DeleteCapacityProvider	Grants permission to delete the specified capacity provider	Write	capacity-provider*
DeleteCapacityProvider	Grants permission to delete the specified capacity provider	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DeleteCluster	Grants permission to delete the specified cluster	Write	cluster*
DeleteCluster	Grants permission to delete the specified cluster	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DeleteService	Grants permission to delete a specified service within a cluster	Write	service*
DeleteService		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
DeleteTaskDefinitions	Grants permission to delete the specified task definitions by family and revision	Write	task-definition*
DeleteTaskDefinitions		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DeleteTaskSet	Grants permission to delete the specified task set	Write	task-set*
DeleteTaskSet	Grants permission to delete the specified task set	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster ecs:service
DeregisterContainerInstance	Grants permission to deregister an Amazon ECS container instance from the specified cluster	Write	cluster*
DeregisterContainerInstance		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DeregisterTaskDefinition	Grants permission to deregister the specified task definition by family and revision	Write
DescribeCapacityProviders	Grants permission to describe one or more Amazon ECS capacity providers	Read	capacity-provider*
DescribeCapacityProviders		Read		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DescribeClusters	Grants permission to describes one or more of your clusters	Read	cluster*
DescribeClusters	Grants permission to describes one or more of your clusters	Read		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DescribeContainerInstances	Grants permission to describes Amazon ECS container instances	Read	container-instance*
DescribeContainerInstances		Read		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
DescribeServices	Grants permission to describe the specified services running in your cluster	Read	service*
DescribeServices		Read		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
DescribeTaskDefinition	Grants permission to describe a task definition. You can specify a family and revision to find information about a specific task definition, or you can simply specify the family to find the latest ACTIVE revision in that family	Read
DescribeTaskSets	Grants permission to describe Amazon ECS task sets	Read	task-set*
DescribeTaskSets	Grants permission to describe Amazon ECS task sets	Read		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster ecs:service
DescribeTasks	Grants permission to describe a specified task or tasks	Read	task*
DescribeTasks	Grants permission to describe a specified task or tasks	Read		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
DiscoverPollEndpoint	Grants permission to get an endpoint for the Amazon ECS agent to poll for updates	Write
ExecuteCommand	Grants permission to run a command remotely on an Amazon ECS container	Write	cluster*
			task*
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster ecs:container-name ecs:task
GetTaskProtection	Grants permission to retrieve the protection status of tasks in an Amazon ECS service	Read	task*
GetTaskProtection		Read		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
ListAccountSettings	Grants permission to list the account settings for an Amazon ECS resource for a specified principal	Read
ListAttributes	Grants permission to lists the attributes for Amazon ECS resources within a specified target type and cluster	List	cluster*
ListAttributes		List		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
ListClusters	Grants permission to get a list of existing clusters	List
ListContainerInstances	Grants permission to get a list of container instances in a specified cluster	List	cluster*
ListContainerInstances		List		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
ListServices	Grants permission to get a list of services that are running in a specified cluster	List		ecs:cluster
ListServicesByNamespace	Grants permission to get a list of services that are running in a specified AWS Cloud Map Namespace	List		ecs:namespace
ListTagsForResource	Grants permission to get a list of tags for the specified resource	Read	capacity-provider
			cluster
			container-instance
			service
			task
			task-definition
			task-set
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
ListTaskDefinitionFamilies	Grants permission to get a list of task definition families that are registered to your account (which may include task definition families that no longer have any ACTIVE task definitions)	List
ListTaskDefinitions	Grants permission to get a list of task definitions that are registered to your account	List
ListTasks	Grants permission to get a list of tasks for a specified cluster	List	container-instance*
ListTasks		List		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
Poll [permission only]	Grants permission to an agent to connect with the Amazon ECS service to report status and get commands	Write	container-instance*
Poll [permission only]		Write		ecs:cluster
PutAccountSetting	Grants permission to modify the ARN and resource ID format of a resource for a specified IAM user, IAM role, or the root user for an account. You can specify whether the new ARN and resource ID format are enabled for new resources that are created. Enabling this setting is required to use new Amazon ECS features such as resource tagging	Write		ecs:account-setting
PutAccountSettingDefault	Grants permission to modify the ARN and resource ID format of a resource type for all IAM users on an account for which no individual account setting has been set. Enabling this setting is required to use new Amazon ECS features such as resource tagging	Write		ecs:account-setting
PutAttributes	Grants permission to create or update an attribute on an Amazon ECS resource	Write	container-instance*
PutAttributes		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
PutClusterCapacityProviders	Grants permission to modify the available capacity providers and the default capacity provider strategy for a cluster	Write	cluster*
PutClusterCapacityProviders		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:capacity-provider
RegisterContainerInstance	Grants permission to register an EC2 instance into the specified cluster	Write	cluster*
RegisterContainerInstance		Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
RegisterTaskDefinition	Grants permission to register a new task definition from the supplied family and containerDefinitions	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
RunTask	Grants permission to start a task using random placement and the default Amazon ECS scheduler	Write	task-definition*
RunTask		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys ecs:cluster ecs:capacity-provider ecs:enable-ebs-volumes ecs:enable-execute-command
StartTask	Grants permission to start a new task from the specified task definition on the specified container instance or instances	Write	task-definition*
StartTask		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys ecs:cluster ecs:container-instances ecs:enable-ebs-volumes ecs:enable-execute-command
StartTelemetrySession	Grants permission to start a telemetry session	Write	container-instance*
StartTelemetrySession	Grants permission to start a telemetry session	Write		ecs:cluster
StopTask	Grants permission to stop a running task	Write	task*
StopTask	Grants permission to stop a running task	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
SubmitAttachmentStateChanges	Grants permission to send an acknowledgement that attachments changed states	Write	cluster*
SubmitAttachmentStateChanges		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
SubmitContainerStateChange	Grants permission to send an acknowledgement that a container changed states	Write	cluster*
SubmitContainerStateChange		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
SubmitTaskStateChange	Grants permission to send an acknowledgement that a task changed states	Write	cluster*
SubmitTaskStateChange		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
TagResource	Grants permission to tag the specified resource	Tagging	capacity-provider
			cluster
			container-instance
			service
			task
			task-definition
			task-set
				aws:TagKeys aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} ecs:CreateAction
UntagResource	Grants permission to untag the specified resource	Tagging	capacity-provider
			cluster
			container-instance
			service
			task
			task-definition
			task-set
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UpdateCapacityProvider	Grants permission to update the specified capacity provider	Write	capacity-provider*
UpdateCapacityProvider	Grants permission to update the specified capacity provider	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
UpdateCluster	Grants permission to modify the configuration or settings to use for a cluster	Write	cluster*
UpdateCluster		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
UpdateClusterSettings	Grants permission to modify the settings to use for a cluster	Write	cluster*
UpdateClusterSettings		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
UpdateContainerAgent	Grants permission to update the Amazon ECS container agent on a specified container instance	Write	container-instance*
UpdateContainerAgent		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
UpdateContainerInstancesState	Grants permission to the user to modify the status of an Amazon ECS container instance	Write	container-instance*
UpdateContainerInstancesState		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
UpdateService	Grants permission to modify the parameters of a service	Write	service*
UpdateService	Grants permission to modify the parameters of a service	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster ecs:capacity-provider ecs:enable-ebs-volumes ecs:enable-execute-command ecs:enable-service-connect ecs:namespace ecs:task-definition
UpdateServicePrimaryTaskSet	Grants permission to modify the primary task set used in a service	Write	service*
UpdateServicePrimaryTaskSet		Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
UpdateTaskProtection	Grants permission to modify the protection status of a task	Write	task*
UpdateTaskProtection	Grants permission to modify the protection status of a task	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster
UpdateTaskSet	Grants permission to update the specified task set	Write	task-set*
UpdateTaskSet	Grants permission to update the specified task set	Write		aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:cluster ecs:service

Resource types defined by Amazon Elastic Container Service

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
cluster	`arn:${Partition}:ecs:${Region}:${Account}:cluster/${ClusterName}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
container-instance	`arn:${Partition}:ecs:${Region}:${Account}:container-instance/${ClusterName}/${ContainerInstanceId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
service	`arn:${Partition}:ecs:${Region}:${Account}:service/${ClusterName}/${ServiceName}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
task	`arn:${Partition}:ecs:${Region}:${Account}:task/${ClusterName}/${TaskId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
task-definition	`arn:${Partition}:ecs:${Region}:${Account}:task-definition/${TaskDefinitionFamilyName}:${TaskDefinitionRevisionNumber}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
capacity-provider	`arn:${Partition}:ecs:${Region}:${Account}:capacity-provider/${CapacityProviderName}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
task-set	`arn:${Partition}:ecs:${Region}:${Account}:task-set/${ClusterName}/${ServiceName}/${TaskSetId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon Elastic Container Service

Amazon Elastic Container Service defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys	Description	Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags that are passed in the request	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tag key-value pairs attached to the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the tag keys that are passed in the request	ArrayOfString
ecs:CreateAction	Filters access by the name of a resource-creating API action	String
ecs:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tag key-value pairs attached to the resource	String
ecs:account-setting	Filters access by the Amazon ECS account setting name	String
ecs:capacity-provider	Filters access by the ARN of an Amazon ECS capacity provider	ARN
ecs:cluster	Filters access by the ARN of an Amazon ECS cluster	ARN
ecs:container-instances	Filters access by the ARN of an Amazon ECS container instance	ARN
ecs:container-name	Filters access by the name of an Amazon ECS container which is defined in the ECS task definition	String
ecs:enable-ebs-volumes	Filters access by the Amazon ECS managed Amazon EBS volume capability of your ECS task or service	String
ecs:enable-execute-command	Filters access by the execute-command capability of your Amazon ECS task or Amazon ECS service	String
ecs:enable-service-connect	Filters access by the enable field value in the Service Connect configuration	String
ecs:namespace	Filters access by the ARN of AWS Cloud Map namespace which is defined in the Service Connect Configuration	ARN
ecs:service	Filters access by the ARN of an Amazon ECS service	ARN
ecs:task	Filters access by the ARN of an Amazon ECS task	ARN
ecs:task-definition	Filters access by the ARN of an Amazon ECS task definition	ARN

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