AWS managed policies for AWS Compute Optimizer - AWS Compute Optimizer

AWS managed policies for AWS Compute Optimizer

To add permissions to users, groups, and roles, consider using AWS managed policies rather than to writing your own policies. 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 don't remove permissions from an AWS managed policy, so policy updates won't break your existing permissions.

Additionally, Amazon Web Services supports managed policies for job functions that span multiple services. For example, the ReadOnlyAccess AWS managed policy provides read-only access to all 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: ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy

The ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy managed policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows Compute Optimizer to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Using Service-Linked Roles for AWS Compute Optimizer.

Note

You can't attach ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

  • compute-optimizer – Grants full administrative permissions to all resources in Compute Optimizer.

  • organizations – Allows the management account of an AWS organization to opt in member accounts of the organization to Compute Optimizer.

  • cloudwatch – Grants access to CloudWatch resource metrics for the purpose of analyzing them and generating Compute Optimizer resource recommendations.

  • autoscaling – Grants access to Auto Scaling groups and the instances in Auto Scaling groups for validation purposes.

  • Ec2 – Grants access to Amazon EC2 instances and volumes.

{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "ComputeOptimizerFullAccess", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "compute-optimizer:*" ], "Resource": "*" }, { "Sid": "AwsOrgsAccess", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "organizations:DescribeOrganization", "organizations:ListAccounts", "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization", "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators" ], "Resource": [ "*" ] }, { "Sid": "CloudWatchAccess", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "cloudwatch:GetMetricData" ], "Resource": "*" }, { "Sid": "AutoScalingAccess", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances", "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups" ], "Resource": "*" }, { "Sid": "Ec2Access", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "ec2:DescribeInstances", "ec2:DescribeVolumes" ], "Resource": "*" } ] }

AWS managed policy: ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities.

This policy grants read-only permissions that allow IAM users to view Compute Optimizer resource recommendations.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following:

  • compute-optimizer – Grants read-only access to Compute Optimizer resource recommendations.

  • ec2 – Grants read-only access to Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon EBS volumes.

  • autoscaling – Grants read-only access to Auto Scaling groups.

  • lambda – Grants read-only access to AWS Lambda functions and their configurations.

  • cloudwatch – Grants read-only access to Amazon CloudWatch metric data for resource types that are supported by Compute Optimizer.

  • organizations – Grants read-only access to member accounts of an AWS organization.

  • ecs – Grants access to Amazon ECS services on Fargate.

{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "compute-optimizer:DescribeRecommendationExportJobs", "compute-optimizer:GetEnrollmentStatus", "compute-optimizer:GetEnrollmentStatusesForOrganization", "compute-optimizer:GetRecommendationSummaries", "compute-optimizer:GetEC2InstanceRecommendations", "compute-optimizer:GetEC2RecommendationProjectedMetrics", "compute-optimizer:GetAutoScalingGroupRecommendations", "compute-optimizer:GetEBSVolumeRecommendations", "compute-optimizer:GetLambdaFunctionRecommendations", "compute-optimizer:GetRecommendationPreferences", "compute-optimizer:GetEffectiveRecommendationPreferences", "compute-optimizer:GetECSServiceRecommendations", "compute-optimizer:GetECSServiceRecommendationProjectedMetrics", "compute-optimizer:GetLicenseRecommendations", "ec2:DescribeInstances", "ec2:DescribeVolumes", "ecs:ListServices", "ecs:ListClusters", "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups", "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances", "lambda:ListFunctions", "lambda:ListProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs", "cloudwatch:GetMetricData", "organizations:ListAccounts", "organizations:DescribeOrganization", "organizations:DescribeAccount" ], "Resource": "*" } ] }
Note

The following policy statement only grants read-only access to Compute Optimizer for a management account of an organization to view org-level recommendations. If you're the delegated administrator and you want to view org-level recommendations, see Policies to grant access to Compute Optimizer for a management account of an organization.

Compute Optimizer updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for Compute Optimizer since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed for this guide.

Change Description Date

Edit to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy

Added the compute-optimizer:GetLicenseRecommendations actions to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy.

July 26, 2023

Edit to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy

Added the compute-optimizer:GetECSServiceRecommendations, compute-optimizer:GetECSServiceRecommendationProjectedMetrics, ecs:ListServices, and ecs:ListClusters actions to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy.

December 22, 2022
Edit to the ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy managed policy Added the ec2:DescribeInstances, ec2:DescribeVolumes, and organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators actions to the ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy managed policy. July 25, 2022

Edit to the ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy managed policy

Added the autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances and autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups actions to the ComputeOptimizerServiceRolePolicy managed policy.

November 29, 2021

Edit to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy

Added the compute-optimizer:GetRecommendationPreferences, compute-optimizer:GetEffectiveRecommendationPreferences, and autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances actions to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy.

November 29, 2021

Edit to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy

Added the GetEnrollmentStatusesForOrganization action to the ComputeOptimizerReadOnlyAccess managed policy.

August 26, 2021

Compute Optimizer started tracking changes

Compute Optimizer started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.

May 18, 2021