AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess

AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess is an AWS managed policy that: Provides read only access to Amazon EC2 via the AWS Management Console.

Using this policy

You can attach AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

• Type: AWS managed policy

• Creation time: February 06, 2015, 18:40 UTC

• Edited time: February 06, 2015, 18:40 UTC

• ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess

Policy version

Policy version: v1 (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

{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:Describe*",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "elasticloadbalancing:Describe*",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "autoscaling:Describe*",
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}

Learn more

• Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center

• Adding and removing IAM identity permissions

• Understand versioning for IAM policies

• Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions