AWS managed policies for AWS CloudTrail
To add permissions to users, groups, and roles, it is easier to use AWS managed policies than to write policies yourself. It takes time and expertise to create IAM customer managed policies that provide your team with only the permissions they need. To get started quickly, you can use AWS managed policies. These policies cover common use cases and are available in your AWS account. For more information about AWS managed policies, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.
AWS services maintain and update AWS managed policies. You can't change the permissions in AWS managed policies. Services occasionally add additional permissions to an AWS managed policy to support new features. This type of update affects all identities (users, groups, and roles) where the policy is attached. Services are most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new feature is launched or when new operations become available. Services do not remove permissions from an AWS managed policy, so policy updates won't break your existing permissions.
Additionally, AWS supports managed policies for job functions that span multiple services. For example, the ReadOnlyAccess AWS managed policy provides read-only access to all AWS services and resources. When a service launches a new feature, AWS adds read-only permissions for new operations and resources. For a list and descriptions of job function policies, see AWS managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.
AWS managed policy: AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess
A user identity that has the AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess policy attached to its role can perform read-only actions in CloudTrail,
such as Get*, List*, and Describe* actions on trails, CloudTrail Lake event data stores, or Lake queries.
AWS managed policy: AWSServiceRoleForCloudTrail
The CloudTrailServiceRolePolicy policy allows AWS CloudTrail to perform actions on organization trails and organization event data stores on your behalf. The policy includes required AWS Organizations permissions for describing and listing the organization accounts and delegated administrators in an AWS Organizations organization.
This policy additionally includes the required AWS Glue and AWS Lake Formation permissions to disable Lake federation on an organization event data store.
This policy is attached to the AWSServiceRoleForCloudTrail service-linked role that allows CloudTrail to perform actions on your behalf. You cannot attach this policy to your users, groups, or roles.
CloudTrail updates to AWS managed policies
View details about updates to AWS managed policies for CloudTrail. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the CloudTrail Document history page.
| Change | Description | Date |
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CloudTrailServiceRolePolicy – Update to an existing policy |
Updated policy to allow the following actions on an organization event data store when federation is disabled:
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November 26, 2023 |
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AWSCloudTrail_ReadOnlyAccess – Update to an existing policy |
CloudTrail changed the name of the |
June 6, 2022 |
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CloudTrail started tracking changes |
CloudTrail started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies. |
June 6, 2022 |
