Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Auto Scaling
AWS Auto Scaling (service prefix: autoscaling-plans) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.
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Learn how to configure this service.
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Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.
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Actions defined by AWS Auto Scaling
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 Access level column of the Actions table describes how the action is classified (List, Read, Permissions management, or Tagging). This classification can help you understand the level of access that an action grants when you use it in a policy. For more information about access levels, see Access levels in policy summaries.
The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies 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. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.
The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.
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Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.
For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.
| Actions | Description | Access level | Resource types (*required) | Condition keys | Dependent actions |
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| CreateScalingPlan | Creates a scaling plan. | Write | |||
| DeleteScalingPlan | Deletes the specified scaling plan. | Write | |||
| DescribeScalingPlanResources | Describes the scalable resources in the specified scaling plan. | Read | |||
| DescribeScalingPlans | Describes the specified scaling plans or all of your scaling plans. | Read | |||
| GetScalingPlanResourceForecastData | Retrieves the forecast data for a scalable resource. | Read | |||
| UpdateScalingPlan | Updates a scaling plan. | Write |
Resource types defined by AWS Auto Scaling
AWS Auto Scaling does not support specifying a resource ARN in the Resource element of an IAM policy statement. To allow access to AWS Auto Scaling, specify "Resource": "*" in your policy.
Condition keys for AWS Auto Scaling
Auto Scaling has no service-specific context keys that can be used in the Condition element of policy statements. For the list of the global context keys that are available to all services, see AWS global condition context keys.
