Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (service prefix: eks) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

• Learn how to configure this service.

• View a list of the API operations available for this service.

• Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

Actions defined by Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you specify a resource-level permission ARN in a statement using this action, then it must be of this type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one but not the other.

For details about the columns in the following table, see The actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys	Dependent actions
AccessKubernetesApi [permission only]	Permission to view Kubernetes objects via AWS EKS console	Read	cluster*
CreateAddon	Creates an Amazon EKS add-on.	Write	cluster*
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateCluster	Creates an Amazon EKS cluster.	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateFargateProfile	Creates an AWS Fargate profile.	Write	cluster*
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateNodegroup	Creates an Amazon EKS Nodegroup.	Write	cluster*
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
DeleteAddon	Deletes an Amazon EKS add-on.	Write	addon*
DeleteCluster	Deletes an Amazon EKS cluster.	Write	cluster*
DeleteFargateProfile	Deletes an AWS Fargate profile.	Write	fargateprofile*
DeleteNodegroup	Deletes an Amazon EKS Nodegroup.	Write	nodegroup*
DescribeAddon	Returns descriptive information about an Amazon EKS add-on.	Read	addon*
DescribeAddonVersions	Returns descriptive version information about the add-ons that Amazon EKS Add-ons supports.	Read
DescribeCluster	Returns descriptive information about an Amazon EKS cluster.	Read	cluster*
DescribeFargateProfile	Returns descriptive information about an AWS Fargate profile associated with a cluster.	Read	fargateprofile*
DescribeNodegroup	Returns descriptive information about an Amazon EKS nodegroup.	Read	nodegroup*
DescribeUpdate	Describes a given update for a given Amazon EKS cluster/nodegroup/add-on (in the specified or default region).	Read	cluster*
			addon
			nodegroup
ListAddons	Lists the Amazon EKS add-ons in your AWS account (in the specified or default region) for a given cluster.	List	cluster*
ListClusters	Lists the Amazon EKS clusters in your AWS account (in the specified or default region).	List
ListFargateProfiles	Lists the AWS Fargate profiles in your AWS account (in the specified or default region) associated with a given cluster.	List	cluster*
ListNodegroups	Lists the Amazon EKS nodegroups in your AWS account (in the specified or default region) attached to given cluster.	List	cluster*
ListTagsForResource	List tags for the specified resource.	List	addon
			cluster
			fargateprofile
			nodegroup
ListUpdates	Lists the updates for a given Amazon EKS cluster/nodegroup/add-on (in the specified or default region).	List	cluster*
			addon
			nodegroup
TagResource	Tags the specified resource.	Tagging	addon
			cluster
			fargateprofile
			nodegroup
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Untags the specified resource.	Tagging	addon
			cluster
			fargateprofile
			nodegroup
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateAddon	Update Amazon EKS add-on configurations, such as the VPC-CNI version.	Write	addon*
UpdateClusterConfig	Update Amazon EKS cluster configurations (eg: API server endpoint access).	Write	cluster*
UpdateClusterVersion	Update the Kubernetes version of an Amazon EKS cluster.	Write	cluster*
UpdateNodegroupConfig	Update Amazon EKS nodegroup configurations (eg: min/max/desired capacity or labels).	Write	nodegroup*
UpdateNodegroupVersion	Update the Kubernetes version of an Amazon EKS nodegroup.	Write	nodegroup*

Resource types defined by Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the table. For details about the columns in the following table, see The resource types table.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
cluster	arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:cluster/${ClusterName}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
nodegroup	arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:nodegroup/${ClusterName}/${NodegroupName}/${UUID}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
addon	arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:addon/${ClusterName}/${AddonName}/${UUID}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
fargateprofile	arn:${Partition}:eks:${Region}:${Account}:fargateprofile/${ClusterName}/${FargateProfileName}/${UUID}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see The condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys	Description	Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by a key that is present in the request the user makes to the EKS service.	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by a tag key and value pair.	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the list of all the tag key names present in the request the user makes to the EKS service.	String