Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Shield

AWS Shield (service prefix: shield) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

• Learn how to configure this service.

• View a list of the API operations available for this service.

• Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

Actions defined by AWS Shield

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	Dependent actions
AssociateDRTLogBucket	Grants permission to authorize the DDoS Response team to access the specified Amazon S3 bucket containing your flow logs	Write			s3:GetBucketPolicy s3:PutBucketPolicy
AssociateDRTRole	Grants permission to authorize the DDoS Response team using the specified role, to access your AWS account to assist with DDoS attack mitigation during potential attacks	Write			iam:GetRole iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies iam:PassRole
AssociateHealthCheck	Grants permission to add health-based detection to the Shield Advanced protection for a resource	Write	protection*		route53:GetHealthCheck
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
AssociateProactiveEngagementDetails	Grants permission to initialize proactive engagement and set the list of contacts for the DDoS Response Team (DRT) to use	Write
CreateProtection	Grants permission to activate DDoS protection service for a given resource ARN	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateProtectionGroup	Grants permission to create a grouping of protected resources so they can be handled as a collective	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateSubscription	Grants permission to activate subscription	Write
DeleteProtection	Grants permission to delete an existing protection	Write	protection*
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DeleteProtectionGroup	Grants permission to remove the specified protection group	Write	protection-group*
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DeleteSubscription	Grants permission to deactivate subscription	Write
DescribeAttack	Grants permission to get attack details	Read	attack*
DescribeAttackStatistics	Grants permission to describe information about the number and type of attacks AWS Shield has detected in the last year	Read
DescribeDRTAccess	Grants permission to describe the current role and list of Amazon S3 log buckets used by the DDoS Response team to access your AWS account while assisting with attack mitigation	Read
DescribeEmergencyContactSettings	Grants permission to list the email addresses that the DRT can use to contact you during a suspected attack	Read
DescribeProtection	Grants permission to get protection details	Read	protection*
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DescribeProtectionGroup	Grants permission to describe the specification for the specified protection group	Read	protection-group*
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
DescribeSubscription	Grants permission to get subscription details, such as start time	Read
DisableApplicationLayerAutomaticResponse	Grants permission to disable application layer automatic response for Shield Advanced protection for a resource	Write
DisableProactiveEngagement	Grants permission to remove authorization from the DDoS Response Team (DRT) to notify contacts about escalations	Write
DisassociateDRTLogBucket	Grants permission to remove the DDoS Response team's access to the specified Amazon S3 bucket containing your flow logs	Write			s3:DeleteBucketPolicy s3:GetBucketPolicy s3:PutBucketPolicy
DisassociateDRTRole	Grants permission to remove the DDoS Response team's access to your AWS account	Write
DisassociateHealthCheck	Grants permission to remove health-based detection from the Shield Advanced protection for a resource	Write	protection*
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
EnableApplicationLayerAutomaticResponse	Grants permission to enable application layer automatic response for Shield Advanced protection for a resource	Write			apprunner:DescribeWebAclForService cloudfront:GetDistribution cognito-idp:GetWebACLForResource ec2:GetVerifiedAccessInstanceWebAcl iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole iam:GetRole wafv2:GetWebACL wafv2:GetWebACLForResource
EnableProactiveEngagement	Grants permission to authorize the DDoS Response Team (DRT) to use email and phone to notify contacts about escalations	Write
GetSubscriptionState	Grants permission to get subscription state	Read
ListAttacks	Grants permission to list all existing attacks	List
ListProtectionGroups	Grants permission to retrieve the protection groups for the account	List
ListProtections	Grants permission to list all existing protections	List
ListResourcesInProtectionGroup	Grants permission to retrieve the resources that are included in the protection group	List	protection-group*
ListTagsForResource	Grants permission to get information about AWS tags for a specified Amazon Resource Name (ARN) in AWS Shield	Read	protection
			protection-group
TagResource	Grants permission to add or updates tags for a resource in AWS Shield	Tagging	protection
			protection-group
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Grants permission to remove tags from a resource in AWS Shield	Tagging	protection
			protection-group
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateApplicationLayerAutomaticResponse	Grants permission to update application layer automatic response for Shield Advanced protection for a resource	Write			apprunner:DescribeWebAclForService cognito-idp:GetWebACLForResource ec2:GetVerifiedAccessInstanceWebAcl wafv2:GetWebACL wafv2:GetWebACLForResource
UpdateEmergencyContactSettings	Grants permission to update the details of the list of email addresses that the DRT can use to contact you during a suspected attack	Write
UpdateProtectionGroup	Grants permission to update an existing protection group	Write	protection-group*
				aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
UpdateSubscription	Grants permission to update the details of an existing subscription	Write

Resource types defined by AWS Shield

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
attack	arn:${Partition}:shield::${Account}:attack/${Id}
protection	arn:${Partition}:shield::${Account}:protection/${Id}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
protection-group	arn:${Partition}:shield::${Account}:protection-group/${Id}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for AWS Shield

AWS Shield 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/${TagKey}	Filters actions based on the presence of tag key-value pairs in the request	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters actions based on tag key-value pairs attached to the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters actions based on the presence of tag keys in the request	ArrayOfString