Example IAM permissions policies to allow Amazon Athena User Defined Functions (UDF) - Amazon Athena

Example IAM permissions policies to allow Amazon Athena User Defined Functions (UDF)

The permission policy examples in this topic demonstrate required allowed actions and the resources for which they are allowed. Examine these policies carefully and modify them according to your requirements before you attach similar permissions policies to IAM identities.

Example
– Allow an IAM principal to run and return queries that contain an Athena UDF statement

The following identity-based permissions policy allows actions that a user or other IAM principal requires to run queries that use Athena UDF statements.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "athena:StartQueryExecution",
                "lambda:InvokeFunction",
                "athena:GetQueryResults",
                "s3:ListMultipartUploadParts",
                "athena:GetWorkGroup",
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
                "athena:StopQueryExecution",
                "athena:GetQueryExecution",
                "s3:GetBucketLocation"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:athena:*:MyAWSAcctId:workgroup/MyAthenaWorkGroup",
                "arn:aws:s3:::MyQueryResultsBucket/*",
                "arn:aws:lambda:*:MyAWSAcctId:function:OneAthenaLambdaFunction",
                "arn:aws:lambda:*:MyAWSAcctId:function:AnotherAthenaLambdaFunction"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor1",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "athena:ListWorkGroups",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
Explanation of permissions
Allowed actions Explanation 
"athena:StartQueryExecution",
 "athena:GetQueryResults",
 "athena:GetWorkGroup",
 "athena:StopQueryExecution",
 "athena:GetQueryExecution",

Athena permissions that are required to run queries in the MyAthenaWorkGroup work group.

 
"s3:PutObject",
"s3:GetObject",
"s3:AbortMultipartUpload"

s3:PutObject and s3:AbortMultipartUpload allow writing query results to all sub-folders of the query results bucket as specified by the arn:aws:s3:::MyQueryResultsBucket/* resource identifier, where MyQueryResultsBucket is the Athena query results bucket. For more information, see Working with query results, recent queries, and output files.

s3:GetObject allows reading of query results and query history for the resource specified as arn:aws:s3:::MyQueryResultsBucket, where MyQueryResultsBucket is the Athena query results bucket. For more information, see Working with query results, recent queries, and output files.

s3:GetObject also allows reading from the resource specified as "arn:aws:s3:::MyLambdaSpillBucket/MyLambdaSpillPrefix*", where MyLambdaSpillPrefix is specified in the configuration of the Lambda function or functions being invoked.

 
"lambda:InvokeFunction"
 Allows queries to invoke the AWS Lambda functions specified in the Resource block. For example, arn:aws:lambda:*:MyAWSAcctId:function:MyAthenaLambdaFunction, where MyAthenaLambdaFunction specifies the name of a Lambda function to be invoked. Multiple functions can be specified as shown in the example.
Example
– Allow an IAM principal to create an Athena UDF
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "lambda:CreateFunction",
                "lambda:ListVersionsByFunction",
                "iam:CreateRole",
                "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
                "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
                "iam:PutRolePolicy",
                "lambda:PutFunctionConcurrency",
                "iam:PassRole",
                "iam:DetachRolePolicy",
                "lambda:ListTags",
                "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
                "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
                "lambda:DeleteFunction",
                "lambda:GetAlias",
                "iam:ListRolePolicies",
                "iam:GetRole",
                "iam:GetPolicy",
                "lambda:InvokeFunction",
                "lambda:GetFunction",
                "lambda:ListAliases",
                "lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration",
                "iam:DeleteRole",
                "lambda:UpdateFunctionCode",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "lambda:AddPermission",
                "iam:UpdateRole",
                "lambda:DeleteFunctionConcurrency",
                "lambda:RemovePermission",
                "iam:GetRolePolicy",
                "lambda:GetPolicy"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:lambda:*:111122223333:function:MyAthenaLambdaFunctionsPrefix*",
                "arn:aws:s3:::awsserverlessrepo-changesets-1iiv3xa62ln3m/*",
                "arn:aws:iam::*:role/RoleName",
                "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:policy/*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor1",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:CreateUploadBucket",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackDriftDetectionStatus",
                "cloudformation:ListExports",
                "cloudformation:ListStacks",
                "cloudformation:ListImports",
                "lambda:ListFunctions",
                "iam:ListRoles",
                "lambda:GetAccountSettings",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "cloudformation:EstimateTemplateCost",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
                "lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",
                "cloudformation:DescribeAccountLimits",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "cloudformation:CreateStackSet",
                "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor2",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "cloudformation:*",
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:111122223333:stack/aws-serverless-repository-MyCFStackPrefix*/*",
                "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:111122223333:stack/serverlessrepo-MyCFStackPrefix*/*",
                "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:transform/Serverless-*",
                "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:111122223333:stackset/aws-serverless-repository-MyCFStackPrefix*:*",
                "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:111122223333:stackset/serverlessrepo-MyCFStackPrefix*:*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor3",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "serverlessrepo:*",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:serverlessrepo:*:*:applications/*"
        }
    ]
}
Explanation of permissions
Allowed actions Explanation 
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:ListVersionsByFunction",
"lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
"lambda:PutFunctionConcurrency",
"lambda:ListTags",
"lambda:DeleteFunction",
"lambda:GetAlias",
"lambda:InvokeFunction",
"lambda:GetFunction",
"lambda:ListAliases",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionCode",
"lambda:AddPermission",
"lambda:DeleteFunctionConcurrency",
"lambda:RemovePermission",
"lambda:GetPolicy"
"lambda:GetAccountSettings",
"lambda:ListFunctions",
"lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",

Allow the creation and management of Lambda functions listed as resources. In the example, a name prefix is used in the resource identifier arn:aws:lambda:*:MyAWSAcctId:function:MyAthenaLambdaFunctionsPrefix*, where MyAthenaLambdaFunctionsPrefix is a shared prefix used in the name of a group of Lambda functions so that they don't need to be specified individually as resources. You can specify one or more Lambda function resources.

 
"s3:GetObject"
 Allows reading of a bucket that AWS Serverless Application Repository requires as specified by the resource identifier arn:aws:s3:::awsserverlessrepo-changesets-1iiv3xa62ln3m/*. 
"cloudformation:*"

Allows the creation and management of AWS CloudFormation stacks specified by the resource MyCFStackPrefix. These stacks and stacksets are how AWS Serverless Application Repository deploys connectors and UDFs.

 
"serverlessrepo:*"
 Allows searching, viewing, publishing, and updating applications in the AWS Serverless Application Repository, specified by the resource identifier arn:aws:serverlessrepo:*:*:applications/*.