# AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy
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**Description**: IAM Policy that allows the CSI driver service account to make calls to related services such as EC2 on your behalf.

`AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: April 04, 2022, 17:24 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:02 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEBSCSIDriverPolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v14 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumesModifications",
        "ec2:DescribeVolumeStatus"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
        "ec2:ModifyVolume"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CopyVolumes"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/vol-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AttachVolume",
        "ec2:DetachVolume"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:EnableFastSnapshotRestores"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateVolume",
            "CreateSnapshot",
            "CopyVolumes"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:CopyVolumes"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/ebs.csi.aws.com/cluster" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:CopyVolumes"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/CSIVolumeName" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteVolume"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/ebs.csi.aws.com/cluster" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteVolume"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/CSIVolumeName" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteVolume"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/kubernetes.io/created-for/pvc/name" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSnapshot"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/CSIVolumeSnapshotName" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSnapshot"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/ebs.csi.aws.com/cluster" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:LockSnapshot"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/CSIVolumeSnapshotName" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:LockSnapshot"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/ebs.csi.aws.com/cluster" : "true"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)