AWS managed policies for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

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 our 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: AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBServiceRolePolicy

You cannot attach the AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBServiceRolePolicy AWS managed policy to identities in your account. This policy is part of the AWS TimestreamforInfluxDB service-linked role. This role allows the service to manage network interfaces and security groups in your account.

Timestream for InfluxDB uses the permissions in this policy to manage EC2 security groups and network interfaces. This is required to manage Timestream for InfluxDB DB instances.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Sid": "DescribeNetworkStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
				"ec2:DescribeVpcs",
				"ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces"
			],
			"Resource": "*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "CreateEniInSubnetStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
				"arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
			]
		},
		{
			"Sid": "CreateEniStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
			"Condition": {
				"Null": {
					"aws:RequestTag/AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBManaged": "false"
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "CreateTagWithEniStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateTags"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
			"Condition": {
				"Null": {
					"aws:RequestTag/AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBManaged": "false"
				},
				"StringEquals": {
					"ec2:CreateAction": [
						"CreateNetworkInterface"
					]
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "ManageEniStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
				"ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
			"Condition": {
				"Null": {
					"aws:ResourceTag/AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBManaged": "false"
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "PutCloudWatchMetricsStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
			],
			"Condition": {
				"StringEquals": {
					"cloudwatch:namespace": [
						"AWS/Timestream/InfluxDB",
						"AWS/Usage"
					]
				}
			},
			"Resource": [
				"*"
			]
		},
		{
			"Sid": "ManageSecretStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"secretsmanager:CreateSecret",
				"secretsmanager:DeleteSecret"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:READONLY-InfluxDB-auth-parameters-*"
			],
			"Condition": {
				"StringEquals": {
					"aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
				}
			}
		}
	]
}

AWS-managed (predefined) policies for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB

AWS addresses many common use cases by providing standalone IAM policies that are created and administered by AWS. Managed policies grant necessary permissions for common use cases so you can avoid having to investigate what permissions are needed. For more information, see AWS Managed Policies in the IAM User Guide.

The following AWS managed policies, which you can attach to users in your account, are specific to Timestream for InfluxDB:

AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBFullAccess

You can attach the AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBFullAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants administrative permissions that allow full access to all Timestream for InfluxDB resources.

AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBFullAccess - Grants full access to Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB resources.

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Sid": "DescribeNetworkStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
				"ec2:DescribeVpcs",
				"ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces"
			],
			"Resource": "*"
		},
		{
			"Sid": "CreateEniInSubnetStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
				"arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
			]
		},
		{
			"Sid": "CreateEniStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateNetworkInterface"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
			"Condition": {
				"Null": {
					"aws:RequestTag/AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBManaged": "false"
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "CreateTagWithEniStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateTags"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
			"Condition": {
				"Null": {
					"aws:RequestTag/AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBManaged": "false"
				},
				"StringEquals": {
					"ec2:CreateAction": [
						"CreateNetworkInterface"
					]
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "ManageEniStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
				"ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
			"Condition": {
				"Null": {
					"aws:ResourceTag/AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBManaged": "false"
				}
			}
		},
		{
			"Sid": "PutCloudWatchMetricsStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
			],
			"Condition": {
				"StringEquals": {
					"cloudwatch:namespace": [
						"AWS/Timestream/InfluxDB",
						"AWS/Usage"
					]
				}
			},
			"Resource": [
				"*"
			]
		},
		{
			"Sid": "ManageSecretStatement",
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"secretsmanager:CreateSecret",
				"secretsmanager:DeleteSecret"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:READONLY-InfluxDB-auth-parameters-*"
			],
			"Condition": {
				"StringEquals": {
					"aws:ResourceAccount": "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
				}
			}
		}
	]

You can also create your own custom IAM policies to allow permissions for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB API actions. You can attach these custom policies to the IAM users or groups that require those permissions.

Timestream for InfluxDB updates to AWS managed policies

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

Change	Description	Date
AWS managed policy: AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBServiceRolePolicy – New policy	Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB added a new policy that allows the service to manage network interfaces and security groups in your account.	03/14/2024
AmazonTimestreamInfluxDBFullAccess – New policy	Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB added a new policy to provide full administrative access to create, update, delete and list Amazon Timestream InfluxDB instances and create and list parameter groups.	03/14/2024