AWS Application Discovery Service Identity-Based Policy Examples

By default, IAM users and roles don't have permission to create or modify Application Discovery Service resources. They also can't perform tasks using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS API. An IAM administrator must create IAM policies that grant users and roles permission to perform specific API operations on the specified resources they need. The administrator must then attach those policies to the IAM users or groups that require those permissions.

To learn how to create an IAM identity-based policy using these example JSON policy documents, see Creating Policies on the JSON Tab in the IAM User Guide.

Policy best practices

Identity-based policies determine whether someone can create, access, or delete Application Discovery Service resources in your account. These actions can incur costs for your AWS account. When you create or edit identity-based policies, follow these guidelines and recommendations:

• Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions – To get started granting permissions to your users and workloads, use the AWS managed policies that grant permissions for many common use cases. They are available in your AWS account. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining AWS customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases. For more information, see AWS managed policies or AWS managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.

• Apply least-privilege permissions – When you set permissions with IAM policies, grant only the permissions required to perform a task. You do this by defining the actions that can be taken on specific resources under specific conditions, also known as least-privilege permissions. For more information about using IAM to apply permissions, see Policies and permissions in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

• Use conditions in IAM policies to further restrict access – You can add a condition to your policies to limit access to actions and resources. For example, you can write a policy condition to specify that all requests must be sent using SSL. You can also use conditions to grant access to service actions if they are used through a specific AWS service, such as AWS CloudFormation. For more information, see IAM JSON policy elements: Condition in the IAM User Guide.

• Use IAM Access Analyzer to validate your IAM policies to ensure secure and functional permissions – IAM Access Analyzer validates new and existing policies so that the policies adhere to the IAM policy language (JSON) and IAM best practices. IAM Access Analyzer provides more than 100 policy checks and actionable recommendations to help you author secure and functional policies. For more information, see IAM Access Analyzer policy validation in the IAM User Guide.

• Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) – If you have a scenario that requires IAM users or a root user in your AWS account, turn on MFA for additional security. To require MFA when API operations are called, add MFA conditions to your policies. For more information, see Configuring MFA-protected API access in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about best practices in IAM, see Security best practices in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

Granting full access to Application Discovery Service

The AWSApplicationDiscoveryServiceFullAccess managed policy grants the IAM user account access to the Application Discovery Service and Migration Hub APIs.

An IAM user with this policy attached to their account can configure Application Discovery Service, start and stop agents, start and stop agentless discovery, and query data from the AWS Discovery Service database. For more information about this policy, see AWS managed policies for AWS Application Discovery Service.

Example AWSApplicationDiscoveryServiceFullAccess policy

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "mgh:*",
                "discovery:*"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "iam:GetRole"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Granting access to discovery agents

The AWSApplicationDiscoveryAgentAccess managed policy grants the Application Discovery Agent access to register and communicate with Application Discovery Service. For more information about this policy, see AWS managed policies for AWS Application Discovery Service.

Attach this policy to any user whose credentials are used by Application Discovery Agent.

This policy also grants the user access to Arsenal. Arsenal is an agent service that is managed and hosted by AWS. Arsenal forwards data to Application Discovery Service in the cloud.

Example AWSApplicationDiscoveryAgentAccess Policy

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "arsenal:RegisterOnPremisesAgent"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Granting permissions for agent data collection

The ApplicationDiscoveryServiceContinuousExportServiceRolePolicy managed policy allows AWS Application Discovery Service to create Amazon Data Firehose streams to transform and deliver data that's collected by Application Discovery Service agents to an Amazon S3 bucket in your AWS account.

In addition, this policy creates an AWS Glue Data Catalog with a new database called application_discovery_service_database and table schemas for mapping data that's collected by the agents.

For information about using this policy, see AWS managed policies for AWS Application Discovery Service.

Example ApplicationDiscoveryServiceContinuousExportServiceRolePolicy

{
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "glue:CreateDatabase",
                "glue:UpdateDatabase",
                "glue:CreateTable",
                "glue:UpdateTable",
                "firehose:CreateDeliveryStream",
                "firehose:DescribeDeliveryStream",
                "logs:CreateLogGroup"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "firehose:DeleteDeliveryStream",
                "firehose:PutRecord",
                "firehose:PutRecordBatch",
                "firehose:UpdateDestination"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:firehose:*:*:deliverystream/aws-application-discovery-service*"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "s3:CreateBucket",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:PutBucketLogging",
                "s3:PutEncryptionConfiguration"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::aws-application-discovery-service*"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::aws-application-discovery-service*/*"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "logs:CreateLogStream",
                "logs:PutRetentionPolicy"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/application-discovery-service/firehose*"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "iam:PassRole"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWSApplicationDiscoveryServiceFirehose",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "iam:PassedToService": "firehose.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "iam:PassRole"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/service-role/AWSApplicationDiscoveryServiceFirehose",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "iam:PassedToService": "firehose.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        }
    ]        
}

Granting permissions for data exploration

The AWSDiscoveryContinuousExportFirehosePolicy policy is required to use data exploration in Amazon Athena. It allows Amazon Data Firehose to write data that's collected from Application Discovery Service to Amazon S3. For information about using this policy, see Creating the AWSApplicationDiscoveryServiceFirehose Role.

Example AWSDiscoveryContinuousExportFirehosePolicy

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "glue:GetTableVersions"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
                "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",
                "s3:PutObject"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::aws-application-discovery-service-*",
                "arn:aws:s3:::aws-application-discovery-service-*/*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "logs:PutLogEvents"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/application-discovery-service/firehose:log-stream:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Granting permissions to use the Migration Hub console network diagram

To grant access to the AWS Migration Hub console network diagram when creating an identity-based policy that allows or denies access to Application Discovery Service or Migration Hub, you might need to add the discovery:GetNetworkConnectionGraph action to the policy.

You must use the discovery:GetNetworkConnectionGraph action in new policies or update older policies if the following are both true for the policy:

• The policy allows or denies access to Application Discovery Service or the Migration Hub.

• The policy grants access permissions using one more specific discovery actions like discovery:action-name rather than discovery:*.

The following example shows how to use the discovery:GetNetworkConnectionGraph action in an IAM policy.

Example

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": ["discovery:GetNetworkConnectionGraph"],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

For information about the Migration Hub network diagram, see Viewing network connections in Migration Hub.