AWS managed policies for App Mesh

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. AWS managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.

Keep in mind that AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all AWS customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.

You cannot change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. If AWS updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. AWS is most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new AWS service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: AWSAppMeshServiceRolePolicy

You can attach AWSAppMeshServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities. Enables access to AWS Services and resources used or managed by AWS App Mesh.

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

For information on the permission details for the AWSAppMeshServiceRolePolicy, see see Service-Linked Role Permissions for App Mesh.

AWS managed policy: AWSAppMeshEnvoyAccess

You can attach AWSAppMeshEnvoyAccess to your IAM entities. App Mesh Envoy policy for accessing virtual node configuration.

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

AWS managed policy: AWSAppMeshFullAccess

You can attach AWSAppMeshFullAccess to your IAM entities. Provides full access to the AWS App Mesh APIs and AWS Management Console.

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

AWS managed policy: AWSAppMeshPreviewEnvoyAccess

You can attach AWSAppMeshPreviewEnvoyAccess to your IAM entities. App Mesh Preview Envoy policy for accessing virtual node configuration.

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

AWS managed policy: AWSAppMeshPreviewServiceRolePolicy

You can attach AWSAppMeshPreviewServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities. Enables access to AWS Services and resources used or managed by AWS App Mesh.

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

AWS managed policy: AWSAppMeshReadOnly

You can attach AWSAppMeshReadOnly to your IAM entities. Provides read-only access to the AWS App Mesh APIs and AWS Management Console.

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

AWS App Mesh updates to AWS managed policies

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

Change	Description	Date
AWSAppMeshFullAccess – Updated policy.	Updated AWSAppMeshFullAccess to allow for access to the TagResource and UntagResourceAPIs.	April  24, 2024
AWSAppMeshServiceRolePolicy, AWSServiceRoleForAppMesh – Updated policy.	Updated AWSServiceRoleForAppMesh and AWSAppMeshServiceRolePolicy to allow for access to the AWS Cloud Map DiscoverInstancesRevision API.	October 12, 2023

To provide access, add permissions to your users, groups, or roles:

• Users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center:

  Create a permission set. Follow the instructions in Create a permission set in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

• Users managed in IAM through an identity provider:

  Create a role for identity federation. Follow the instructions in Creating a role for a third-party identity provider (federation) in the IAM User Guide.

• IAM users:

  • Create a role that your user can assume. Follow the instructions in Creating a role for an IAM user in the IAM User Guide.

  • (Not recommended) Attach a policy directly to a user or add a user to a user group. Follow the instructions in Adding permissions to a user (console) in the IAM User Guide.