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AWS managed policy: AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccessAWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicyPolicy updates

AWS managed policies for AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring

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: AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess

Use this policy to test your application on AWS when you modernize your application with the AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. Attach the policy to your local AWS profile. The policy grants permissions to upload application artifacts and download the resulting artifacts from S3. It grants permissions to build the application into a container image using AWS CodeBuild and store and retrieve the images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). In addition, it allows for the deployment of the application to container services on AWS, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), the optional creation of Amazon VPC resources, and the optional connection to existing infrastructure, such as AWS Directory Service.

Permission details

This policy includes permissions for the following services:

  • Application Transformation – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to perform compatibility assessments along with containerization and deployment operations.

  • Amazon CloudWatch – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to create log groups and store log output from Toolkit for .NET Refactoring operations and your applications.

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to create and modify security groups, internet gateways, and Amazon VPC.

  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to create and read your Amazon ECR repository and to tag resources.

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to run your container images as tasks in Amazon ECS and to facilitate debugging.

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to list and manage objects from Amazon S3 buckets that are used by Toolkit for .NET Refactoring.

  • AWS CloudFormation – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to deploy the infrastructure components of CodeBuild and application deployment in the form of AWS CloudFormation stacks.

  • AWS CodeBuild – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to allocate resources for CodeBuild projects and start builds.

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to verify which roles are passed to other AWS services.

  • AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to utilize user-provided KMS keys across AWS services for encryption.

  • Amazon EC2 Systems Manager (SSM) – Allows Toolkit for .NET Refactoring to manage SSM parameters and communicate with Amazon ECS tasks.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicy

This policy is used by the Amazon ECS tasks that are created to run a test application on AWS with the AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. The policy grants permissions to download application artifacts from S3 and to communicate the status of the task using AWS Systems Manager.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

Toolkit for .NET Refactoring updates to AWS managed policies

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

Change Description Date
Updated AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess managed policy

Added permissions for the cloudformation:TagResource and cloudformation:UntagResource actions to manage resource tags on stacks created for AWS App2Container.

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 March 25, 2024
Updated AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess managed policy

Added permissions for application-transformation actions and KMS permissions for resources matching ForAnyValue:StringLike with "kms:ResourceAliases": "alias/application-transformation*". Changed permissions for EC2, ECR, ECS, and CloudWatch Logs to scope them to the application-transformation request and resource tag.

For more information, see AWS managed policy: AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess.

 November 18, 2023
Updated AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess managed policy

Added ListStacks permissions.

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 March 22, 2023
Updated AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess managed policy

Added tagging permissions that allow new accounts to perform the CreateLogGroup action.

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 December 15, 2022
Updated AWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicy managed policy

Added permissions to open a data channel to transfer files to the customer's container.

For more information, see AWS managed policy: AWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicy.

 October 29, 2022
New policy – AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess

Added AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess to AWS managed policies.

For more information, see AWS managed policy: AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess.

 October 25, 2022
New policy – AWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicy

Added AWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicy to AWS managed policies.

For more information, see AWS managed policy: AWSRefactoringToolkitSidecarPolicy.

 October 25, 2022