AWS managed policies for AWS Identity and Access Management Roles Anywhere

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. AWS managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.

Keep in mind that AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all AWS customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.

You cannot change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. If AWS updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. AWS is most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new AWS service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: AWSRolesAnywhereServicePolicy

AWSRolesAnywhereServicePolicy provides the required permissions to publish metrics data to CloudWatch namespaces (AWS/RolesAnywhere and AWS/Usage). This policy also grants permissions to list information about your private certificate authority (CA) and retrieve the certificate and certificate chain for your private CA from AWS Private CA.

You can't attach AWSRolesAnywhereServicePolicy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows IAM Roles Anywhere to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked role permissions for IAM Roles Anywhere.

This policy grants administrative permissions that allow IAM Roles Anywhere to publish CloudWatch metrics and check the configuration of AWS Private CA.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

• cloudwatch – Allows principals to publish metric data points to the AWS/RolesAnywhere and AWS/Usage namespaces.

• acm-pca – Allows principals to list information about your private certificate authority (CA) and retrieve the certificate and certificate chain for your private CA from AWS Private CA.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
        ],
        "Resource": "*",
        "Condition": {
          "StringEquals": {
            "cloudwatch:namespace": [
              "AWS/RolesAnywhere",
              "AWS/Usage"
            ]
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate",
          "acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority"
        ],
        "Resource": "arn:aws:acm-pca:*:*:*"
      }
    ]
  }

IAM Roles Anywhere updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for IAM Roles Anywhere since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the IAM Roles Anywhere Document history page.

Change	Description	Date
IAM Roles Anywhere started tracking changes	IAM Roles Anywhere started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.	February 27, 2023