# AmazonSageMakerSpacesControllerPolicy
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**Description**: Grants Systems Manager activation, session management, and KMS key operations permissions required for the SageMaker Spaces Addon to enable secure remote access to EKS SageMaker Spaces.

`AmazonSageMakerSpacesControllerPolicy` 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 `AmazonSageMakerSpacesControllerPolicy` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 19, 2025, 04:34 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:01 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSageMakerSpacesControllerPolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v3 (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" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMCreateActivationForSpaces",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:CreateActivation"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/managed-by" : "amazon-sagemaker-spaces",
          "aws:RequestTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/eks-cluster-arn" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks-cluster-arn}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMDescribeActivations",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DescribeActivations"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMDescribeSessions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DescribeSessions"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMDeleteActivation",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DeleteActivation"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToAddTagsToActivation",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ssm:AddTagsToResource",
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/sagemaker-space-*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/managed-by" : "amazon-sagemaker-spaces",
          "aws:RequestTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/eks-cluster-arn" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks-cluster-arn}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMDescribeManagedNodes",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMDeregisterWorkspaceInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DeregisterManagedInstance"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ssm:resourceTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/managed-by" : "amazon-sagemaker-spaces",
          "ssm:resourceTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/eks-cluster-arn" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks-cluster-arn}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToPassSsmManagedNodeRole",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/sagemaker-space-*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "ssm.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMStartSession",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:StartSession"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ssm:resourceTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/managed-by" : "amazon-sagemaker-spaces",
          "ssm:resourceTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/eks-cluster-arn" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks-cluster-arn}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowStartSessionDocuments",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:StartSession"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*::document/AWS-StartSSHSession",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/SageMaker-Space*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "KMSDescribeKey",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:DescribeKey"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "KMSKeyOperations",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:GenerateDataKey",
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "kms:EncryptionContext:sagemaker:component" : "amazon-sagemaker-spaces",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:sagemaker:eks-cluster-arn" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks-cluster-arn}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMDescribeDocument",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DescribeDocument"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/SageMaker-Space*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToSSMCreateDocument",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:CreateDocument"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/SageMaker-Space*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/managed-by" : "amazon-sagemaker-spaces",
          "aws:RequestTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/eks-cluster-arn" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks-cluster-arn}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToEnableAdvancedTierForManagedInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:UpdateServiceSetting",
        "ssm:GetServiceSetting",
        "ssm:ResetServiceSetting"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/managed-instance/activation-tier"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOperatorToAddTagsToSSMDocument",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ssm:AddTagsToResource",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/SageMaker-Space*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/sagemaker.amazonaws.com/managed-by" : "amazon-sagemaker-spaces"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)