AmazonEKSServiceRolePolicy

Description: A Service-Linked Role required for Amazon EKS to call AWS services on your behalf.

AmazonEKSServiceRolePolicy is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows the service to perform actions on your behalf. You cannot attach this policy to your users, groups, or roles.

Policy details

• Type: Service-linked role policy

• Creation time: February 21, 2020, 20:10 UTC

• Edited time: May 27, 2020, 19:30 UTC

• ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonEKSServiceRolePolicy

Policy version

Policy version: v2 (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:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/Name" : "eks-cluster-sg*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "kubernetes.io/cluster/*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "kubernetes.io/cluster/*"
          ],
          "aws:RequestTag/Name" : "eks-cluster-sg*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "route53:AssociateVPCWithHostedZone",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:route53:::hostedzone/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "logs:CreateLogGroup",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/eks/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/eks/*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "logs:PutLogEvents",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/eks/*:*:*"
    }
  ]
}

Learn more

• Understand versioning for IAM policies

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