Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Backup

AWS Backup (service prefix: backup) 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 AWS Backup

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
CopyFromBackupVault [permission only]	Grants permission to copy from a backup vault	Write		backup:CopyTargets backup:CopyTargetOrgPaths
CopyIntoBackupVault [permission only]	Grants permission to copy into a backup vault	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}
CreateBackupPlan	Grants permission to create a new backup plan	Write	backupPlan*
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateBackupSelection	Grants permission to create a new resource assignment in a backup plan	Write	backupPlan*		iam:PassRole
CreateBackupVault	Grants permission to create a new backup vault	Write	backupVault*
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
DeleteBackupPlan	Grants permission to delete a backup plan	Write	backupPlan*
DeleteBackupSelection	Grants permission to delete a resource assignment from a backup plan	Write	backupPlan*
DeleteBackupVault	Grants permission to delete a backup vault	Write	backupVault*
DeleteBackupVaultAccessPolicy	Grants permission to delete backup vault access policy	Write	backupVault*
DeleteBackupVaultNotifications	Grants permission to remove notifications from backup vault	Write	backupVault*
DeleteRecoveryPoint	Grants permission to delete a recovery point from a backup vault	Write	recoveryPoint*
DescribeBackupJob	Grants permission to describe a backup job	Read
DescribeBackupVault	Grants permission to describe a new backup vault with the specified name	Read	backupVault*
DescribeCopyJob	Grants permission to describe a copy job	Read		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
DescribeGlobalSettings	Grants permission to describe global settings	Read
DescribeProtectedResource	Grants permission to describe a protected resource	Read
DescribeRecoveryPoint	Grants permission to describe a recovery point	Read	recoveryPoint*
DescribeRegionSettings	Grants permission to describe region settings	Read
DescribeRestoreJob	Grants permission to describe a restore job	Read
DisassociateRecoveryPoint	Grants permission to disassociate a recovery point from a backup vault	Write	recoveryPoint*
ExportBackupPlanTemplate	Grants permission to export a backup plan as a JSON	Read
GetBackupPlan	Grants permission to get a backup plan	Read	backupPlan*
GetBackupPlanFromJSON	Grants permission to transform a JSON to a backup plan	Read
GetBackupPlanFromTemplate	Grants permission to transform a template to a backup plan	Read
GetBackupSelection	Grants permission to get a backup plan resource assignment	Read	backupPlan*
GetBackupVaultAccessPolicy	Grants permission to get backup vault access policy	Read	backupVault*
GetBackupVaultNotifications	Grants permission to get backup vault notifications	Read	backupVault*
GetRecoveryPointRestoreMetadata	Grants permission to get recovery point restore metadata	Read	recoveryPoint*
GetSupportedResourceTypes	Grants permission to get supported resource types	Read
ListBackupJobs	Grants permission to list backup jobs	List
ListBackupPlanTemplates	Grants permission to list backup plan templates provided by AWS Backup	List
ListBackupPlanVersions	Grants permission to list backup plan versions	List	backupPlan*
ListBackupPlans	Grants permision to list backup plans	List
ListBackupSelections	Grants permission to list resource assignments for a specific backup plan	List	backupPlan*
ListBackupVaults	Grants permission to list backup vaults.	List
ListCopyJobs	Grants permission to list copy jobs	List
ListProtectedResources	Grants permission to list protected resources by AWS Backup	List
ListRecoveryPointsByBackupVault	Grants permission to list recovery points inside a backup vault	List	backupVault*
ListRecoveryPointsByResource	Grants permission to list recovery points for a resource	List
ListRestoreJobs	Grants permission to lists restore jobs	List
ListTags	Grants permission to list tags for a resource	Read	backupPlan
			backupVault
			recoveryPoint
PutBackupVaultAccessPolicy	Grants permission to add an access policy to the backup vault	Write	backupVault*
PutBackupVaultNotifications	Grants permission to add an SNS topic to the backup vault	Write	backupVault*
StartBackupJob	Grants permission to start a new backup job	Write	backupVault*		iam:PassRole
StartCopyJob	Grants permission to copy a backup from a source backup vault to a destination backup vault	Write	recoveryPoint*		iam:PassRole
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
StartRestoreJob	Grants permission to start a new restore job	Write	recoveryPoint*		iam:PassRole
StopBackupJob	Grants permission to stop a backup job	Write
TagResource	Grants permission to tag a resource	Tagging	backupPlan
			backupVault
			recoveryPoint
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Grants permission to untag a resource	Tagging	backupPlan
			backupVault
			recoveryPoint
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateBackupPlan	Grants permission to update a backup plan	Write	backupPlan*
UpdateGlobalSettings	Grants permission to update the current global settings for the AWS Account	Write
UpdateRecoveryPointLifecycle	Grants permission to update the lifecycle of the recovery point	Write	recoveryPoint*
UpdateRegionSettings	Grants permission to update the current service opt-in settings for the Region	Write

Resource types defined by AWS Backup

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
backupVault	arn:${Partition}:backup:${Region}:${Account}:backup-vault:${BackupVaultName}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
backupPlan	arn:${Partition}:backup:${Region}:${Account}:backup-plan:${BackupPlanId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
recoveryPoint	arn:${Partition}:${Vendor}:${Region}:*:${ResourceType}:${RecoveryPointId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for AWS Backup

AWS Backup 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/${TagKey}	Filters access by the allowed set of values for each of the tags	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the presence of mandatory tags in the request	String
backup:CopyTargetOrgPaths	Filters access by the organization unit	String
backup:CopyTargets	Filters access by the ARN of an backup vault	String