AWS managed policies for AWS User Notifications

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: AWSUserNotificationsServiceLinkedRolePolicy

You can't attach AWSUserNotificationsServiceLinkedRolePolicy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to AWSServiceRoleForAWSUserNotifications, a service-linked role that allows User Notifications to call AWS services on your behalf and publish Amazon CloudWatch metrics. For more information, see Using Service-Linked Roles for User Notifications.

Permissions details

User Notifications attaches this policy to AWSServiceRoleForAWSUserNotifications, a service-linked role that allows User Notifications to create, read, update, and delete Amazon EventBridge managed rules in your account. For example, when you create an event rule for your notification configuration, a managed rule is created in EventBridge. This policy also enables the role to publish Amazon CloudWatch metrics within the AWS/Notifications namespace.

{
 {
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"events:DescribeRule",
				"events:PutRule",
				"events:PutTargets",
				"events:DeleteRule",
				"events:ListTargetsByRule",
				"events:RemoveTargets"
			],
			"Resource": "arn:aws:events:*:*:rule/AWSUserNotificationsManagedRule-*"
		},
		{
		        "Effect" : "Allow",
                        "Action" : "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
                        "Resource" : "*",
                        "Condition" : {
                          "StringEquals" : {
                              "cloudwatch:namespace" : "AWS/Notifications"
                           }
                         },
                }
       ]
 }
}

User Notifications updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for User Notifications 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 the AWS User Notifications User Guide page.

Change	Description	Date
AWSUserNotificationsServiceLinkedRolePolicy - New policy	Allows User Notifications to create, read, update, and delete managed rules in the account. Allows User Notifications to to publish Amazon CloudWatch metrics within the AWS/Notifications namespace.	April 20, 2023
User Notifications started tracking changes	User Notifications started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.	April 10, 2023