AWS managed policies for AWS Health

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 ViewOnlyAccess AWS managed policy provides read-only access to many 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 Health has the following managed policies.

Contents

• AWS managed policy: AWSHealth_EventProcessorServiceRolePolicy
• AWS managed policy: Health_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicy
• AWS Health updates to AWS 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": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "events:DeleteRule",
                "events:PutTargets",
                "events:PutRule",
                "events:RemoveTargets"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "events:ManagedBy": "event-processor.health.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "events:DescribeRule",
                "events:ListTargetsByRule"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

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.

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",
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

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
Change log published	Change log for the AWS Health managed policies.	January 13, 2023