AWS managed policies for AWS Ground Station

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: AWSGroundStationAgentInstancePolicy

You can attach the AWSGroundStationAgentInstancePolicy policy to your IAM identities.

This policy grants AWS Ground Station Agent permissions to your Amazon EC2 instance that allows the instance to send and receive data during Ground Station contacts. All permissions in this policy are from the Ground Station service.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

• groundstation – Allows dataflow endpoint instances to call the Ground Station Agent APIs.

JSON

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17"		 	 	 ,
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "groundstation:RegisterAgent",
                "groundstation:UpdateAgentStatus",
                "groundstation:GetAgentConfiguration"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
        

AWS managed policy: AWSServiceRoleForGroundStationDataflowEndpointGroupPolicy

You can not attach AWSServiceRoleForGroundStationDataflowEndpointGroupPolicy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows AWS Ground Station to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Using service linked roles.

This policy grants EC2 permissions that allow AWS Ground Station to find public IPv4 addresses.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

• ec2:DescribeAddresses – Allows AWS Ground Station to list all IPs associated with EIPs on your behalf.

• ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces – Allows AWS Ground Station to get information on the network interfaces associated with EC2 instances on your behalf.

JSON

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17"		 	 	 ,
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
        

AWS Ground Station updates to AWS managed policies

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

Change	Description	Date
AWSGroundStationAgentInstancePolicy – New policy	AWS Ground Station added a new policy to provide the dataflow endpoint instance permissions to use the AWS Ground Station Agent.	April 12, 2023
AWSServiceRoleForGroundStationDataflowEndpointGroupPolicy – New policy	AWS Ground Station added a new policy that grants EC2 permissions to allow AWS Ground Station to find public IPv4 addresses associated with EIPs and network interfaces associated with EC2 instances.	November 02, 2022
AWS Ground Station started tracking changes	AWS Ground Station started tracking changes for AWS managed policies.	March 01, 2021