AWS managed policies for AWS Health - AWS Health
AWSHealth_EventProcessorServiceRolePolicyHealth_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicyAWSHealthFullAccessPolicy updates

AWS managed policies for AWS Health

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 Health has the following managed policies.

AWS managed policy: AWSHealth_EventProcessorServiceRolePolicy

AWS Health uses the AWSHealth_EventProcessorServiceRolePolicy AWS managed policy. This managed policy is attached to the AWSServiceRoleForHealth_EventProcessor service-linked role. The policy allows the service-linked role to complete actions for you. You can't attach this policy to your IAM entities. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for AWS Health.

The managed policy has the following permissions to allow AWS Health to access the Amazon EventBridge rule for AWS Incident Detection and Response.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

  • events – Describes and deletes EventBridge rules, and describes and updates the targets for those rules.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {"events:ManagedBy": "event-processor.health.amazonaws.com"}
            },
            "Action": [
                "events:DeleteRule",
                "events:RemoveTargets",
                "events:PutTargets",
                "events:PutRule"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Effect": "Allow"
        },
        {
            "Action": [
                "events:ListTargetsByRule",
                "events:DescribeRule"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Effect": "Allow"
        }
    ]
}

For a list of changes to the policy, see AWS Health updates to AWS managed policies.

AWS managed policy: Health_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicy

AWS Health uses the Health_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicy AWS managed policy. This managed policy is attached to the AWSServiceRoleForHealth_Organizations service-linked role. The policy allows the service-linked role to complete actions for you. You can't attach this policy to your IAM entities. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for AWS Health.

This policy grants permissions that allow AWS Health to access required AWS Organizations details for the Health Organizational view.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

  • organizations – Describes the accounts in AWS Organizations and the AWS services that can be used with Organizations.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
                "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:DescribeAccount"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

For a list of changes to the policy, see AWS Health updates to AWS managed policies.

AWS managed policy: AWSHealthFullAccess

AWS Health uses the AWSHealthFullAccess AWS managed policy. The policy grants entities (IAM users or roles) access to the AWS Health console. For more information, see Using the AWS Health console.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

  • organizations – Enable or disable the AWS Health organizational view feature for all accounts in an AWS organization, and view the organizational units (OU) of the management account

  • health – Access to the AWS Health API operations and notifications

  • iam – Creates an IAM role that is linked the AWS Health service

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
            {
                "Sid": "OrganizationWriteAccess",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
                    "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess"
                ],
                "Resource": "*",
                "Condition": {
                    "StringEquals": {
                        "organizations:ServicePrincipal": "health.amazonaws.com"
                    }
                }
            },
            {
                "Sid": "HealthFullAccess",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "health:*",
                    "organizations:DescribeAccount",
                    "organizations:ListAccounts",
                    "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
                    "organizations:ListParents"
                ],
                "Resource": "*"
            },
            {
                "Sid": "ServiceLinkAccess",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
                "Resource": "*",
                "Condition": {
                    "StringEquals": {
                        "iam:AWSServiceName": "health.amazonaws.com"
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
}

For a list of changes to the policy, see AWS Health updates to AWS managed policies.

AWS Health updates to AWS managed policies

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

The following table describes important updates to the AWS Health managed policies since January 13, 2022.

AWS Health
Change Description Date

AWS managed policy: AWSHealthFullAccess - Update to an existing policy

AWS Health has expanded the AWSHealthFullAccess policy to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions.

October 16, 2023

AWS managed policy: Health_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicy - Update to an existing policy

AWS Health added new AWS Organizations actions to allow service-linked role to describe the accounts and AWS services that can be used with AWS Organizations.

July 19, 2023

Change log published

Change log for the AWS Health managed policies.

 January 13, 2023