AmazonSSMPatchAssociation

Description: Provide access to child instances for patch association operation.

AmazonSSMPatchAssociation is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

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

Policy details

• Type: AWS managed policy

• Creation time: May 13, 2020, 16:00 UTC

• Edited time: May 13, 2020, 16:00 UTC

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

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" : "ssm:DescribeEffectivePatchesForPatchBaseline",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:patchbaseline/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ssm:GetPatchBaseline",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:patchbaseline/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "tag:GetResources",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ssm:DescribePatchBaselines",
      "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