How Amazon EMR works with IAM
Before you use IAM to manage access to Amazon EMR, learn what IAM features are available to use with Amazon EMR.
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To get a high-level view of how Amazon EMR and other AWS services work with most IAM features, see AWS services that work with IAM in the IAM User Guide.
Identity-based policies for Amazon EMR
Supports identity-based policies: Yes
Identity-based policies are JSON permissions policy documents that you can attach to an identity, such as an IAM user, group of users, or role. These policies control what actions users and roles can perform, on which resources, and under what conditions. To learn how to create an identity-based policy, see Creating IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.
With IAM identity-based policies, you can specify allowed or denied actions and resources as well as the conditions under which actions are allowed or denied. You can't specify the principal in an identity-based policy because it applies to the user or role to which it is attached. To learn about all of the elements that you can use in a JSON policy, see IAM JSON policy elements reference in the IAM User Guide.
Identity-based policy examples for Amazon EMR
To view examples of Amazon EMR identity-based policies, see Amazon EMR identity-based policy examples.
Resource-based policies within Amazon EMR
Supports resource-based policies: Yes
Resource-based policies are JSON policy documents that you attach to a resource. Examples of resource-based policies are IAM role trust policies and Amazon S3 bucket policies. In services that support resource-based policies, service administrators can use them to control access to a specific resource. For the resource where the policy is attached, the policy defines what actions a specified principal can perform on that resource and under what conditions. You must specify a principal in a resource-based policy. Principals can include accounts, users, roles, federated users, or AWS services.
To enable cross-account access, you can specify an entire account or IAM entities in another account as the principal in a resource-based policy. Adding a cross-account principal to a resource-based policy is only half of establishing the trust relationship. When the principal and the resource are in different AWS accounts, an IAM administrator in the trusted account must also grant the principal entity (user or role) permission to access the resource. They grant permission by attaching an identity-based policy to the entity. However, if a resource-based policy grants access to a principal in the same account, no additional identity-based policy is required. For more information, see Cross account resource access in IAM in the IAM User Guide.
Policy actions for Amazon EMR
Supports policy actions: Yes
Administrators can use AWS JSON policies to specify who has access to what. That is, which principal can perform actions on what resources, and under what conditions.
The Action
element of a JSON policy describes the
actions that you can use to allow or deny access in a policy. Policy
actions usually have the same name as the associated AWS API operation. There are some exceptions, such as permission-only
actions that don't have a matching API operation. There are also some operations that require multiple actions in a policy.
These additional actions are called dependent actions.
Include actions in a policy to grant permissions to perform the associated operation.
To see a list of Amazon EMR actions, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon EMR in the Service Authorization Reference.
Policy actions in Amazon EMR use the following prefix before the action:
EMR
To specify multiple actions in a single statement, separate them with commas.
"Action": [ "EMR:
action1
", "EMR:action2
" ]
To view examples of Amazon EMR identity-based policies, see Amazon EMR identity-based policy examples.
Policy resources for Amazon EMR
Supports policy resources: Yes
Administrators can use AWS JSON policies to specify who has access to what. That is, which principal can perform actions on what resources, and under what conditions.
The Resource
JSON policy element specifies the object or objects to which the action applies. Statements must include either a
Resource
or a NotResource
element. As a best practice, specify a resource using its Amazon Resource Name (ARN). You can do this for actions that support a
specific resource type, known as resource-level permissions.
For actions that don't support resource-level permissions, such as listing operations, use a wildcard (*) to indicate that the statement applies to all resources.
"Resource": "*"
To see a list of Amazon EMR resource types and their ARNs, see Resources Defined by Amazon EMR in the Service Authorization Reference. To learn which actions you can specify the ARN of each resource, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon EMR.
To view examples of Amazon EMR identity-based policies, see Amazon EMR identity-based policy examples.
Policy condition keys for Amazon EMR
Supports service-specific policy condition keys: Yes
Administrators can use AWS JSON policies to specify who has access to what. That is, which principal can perform actions on what resources, and under what conditions.
The Condition
element (or Condition
block) lets you specify conditions in which a
statement is in effect. The Condition
element is optional. You can create
conditional expressions that use condition
operators, such as equals or less than, to match the condition in the
policy with values in the request.
If you specify multiple Condition
elements in a statement, or
multiple keys in a single Condition
element, AWS evaluates them using
a logical AND
operation. If you specify multiple values for a single
condition key, AWS evaluates the condition using a logical OR
operation. All of the conditions must be met before the statement's permissions are
granted.
You can also use placeholder variables when you specify conditions. For example, you can grant an IAM user permission to access a resource only if it is tagged with their IAM user name. For more information, see IAM policy elements: variables and tags in the IAM User Guide.
AWS supports global condition keys and service-specific condition keys. To see all AWS global condition keys, see AWS global condition context keys in the IAM User Guide.
To see a list of Amazon EMR condition keys and to learn which actions and resources you can use a condition key, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon EMR in the Service Authorization Reference.
To view examples of Amazon EMR identity-based policies, see Amazon EMR identity-based policy examples.
Access control lists (ACLs) in Amazon EMR
Supports ACLs: No
Access control lists (ACLs) control which principals (account members, users, or roles) have permissions to access a resource. ACLs are similar to resource-based policies, although they do not use the JSON policy document format.
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) with Amazon EMR
Supports ABAC (tags in policies) | Yes |
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on attributes. In AWS, these attributes are called tags. You can attach tags to IAM entities (users or roles) and to many AWS resources. Tagging entities and resources is the first step of ABAC. Then you design ABAC policies to allow operations when the principal's tag matches the tag on the resource that they are trying to access.
ABAC is helpful in environments that are growing rapidly and helps with situations where policy management becomes cumbersome.
To control access based on tags, you provide tag information in the condition
element of a policy using the
aws:ResourceTag/
,
key-name
aws:RequestTag/
, or
key-name
aws:TagKeys
condition keys.
If a service supports all three condition keys for every resource type, then the value is Yes for the service. If a service supports all three condition keys for only some resource types, then the value is Partial.
For more information about ABAC, see What is ABAC? in the IAM User Guide. To view a tutorial with steps for setting up ABAC, see Use attribute-based access control (ABAC) in the IAM User Guide.
Using Temporary credentials with Amazon EMR
Supports temporary credentials: Yes
Some AWS services don't work when you sign in using temporary credentials. For additional information, including which AWS services work with temporary credentials, see AWS services that work with IAM in the IAM User Guide.
You are using temporary credentials if you sign in to the AWS Management Console using any method except a user name and password. For example, when you access AWS using your company's single sign-on (SSO) link, that process automatically creates temporary credentials. You also automatically create temporary credentials when you sign in to the console as a user and then switch roles. For more information about switching roles, see Switching to a role (console) in the IAM User Guide.
You can manually create temporary credentials using the AWS CLI or AWS API. You can then use those temporary credentials to access AWS. AWS recommends that you dynamically generate temporary credentials instead of using long-term access keys. For more information, see Temporary security credentials in IAM.
Cross-service principal permissions for Amazon EMR
Supports forward access sessions (FAS): Yes
When you use an IAM user or role to perform actions in AWS, you are considered a principal. When you use some services, you might perform an action that then initiates another action in a different service. FAS uses the permissions of the principal calling an AWS service, combined with the requesting AWS service to make requests to downstream services. FAS requests are only made when a service receives a request that requires interactions with other AWS services or resources to complete. In this case, you must have permissions to perform both actions. For policy details when making FAS requests, see Forward access sessions.
Service roles for Amazon EMR
Supports service roles | No |
Service-linked roles for Amazon EMR
Supports service-linked roles | Yes |
For details about creating or managing service-linked roles, see AWS
services that work with IAM. Find a service in the table that includes
a Yes
in the Service-linked role column. Choose
the Yes link to view the service-linked role documentation for
that service.
Use cluster and Notebook tags with IAM policies for access control
Permission for Amazon EMR actions associated with EMR Notebooks and EMR clusters can be
fine-tuned using tag-based access control with identity-based IAM policies. You can
use condition keys within a Condition
element
(also called a Condition
block) to allow certain actions only when a
notebook, cluster, or both has a certain tag key or key-value combination. You can
also limit the CreateEditor
action (which creates an
EMR notebook) and the RunJobFlow
action (which creates a
cluster) so that a request for a tag must be submitted when the resource is
created.
In Amazon EMR, the condition keys that can be used in a Condition
element
apply only to those Amazon EMR API actions where ClusterID
or
NotebookID
is a required request parameter. For example, the ModifyInstanceGroups
action does not support context keys because ClusterID
is an optional
parameter.
When you create an EMR notebook, a default tag is applied with a key string of
creatorUserId
set to the value of the IAM user ID who created the
notebook. This is useful for limiting allowed actions for the notebook only to the
creator.
The following condition keys are available in Amazon EMR:
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Use the
elasticmapreduce:ResourceTag/
condition context key to allow or deny user actions on clusters or notebooks with tags that have theTagKeyString
that you specify. If an action passes bothTagKeyString
ClusterID
andNotebookID
, the condition applies to both the cluster and the notebook. This means that both resources must have the tag key string or key-value combination that you specify. You can use theResource
element to limit the statement so that it applies only to clusters or notebooks as required. For more information, see Amazon EMR identity-based policy examples. -
Use the
elasticmapreduce:RequestTag/
condition context key to require a specific tag with actions/API calls. For example, you can use this condition context key along with theTagKeyString
CreateEditor
action to require that a key with
is applied to a notebook when it is created.TagKeyString
Examples
To see a list of Amazon EMR actions, see Actions Defined by Amazon EMR in the IAM User Guide.