Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail (service prefix: cloudtrail) 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 CloudTrail

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 Actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys	Dependent actions
AddTags	Grants permission to add one or more tags to a trail, up to a limit of 10	Tagging	eventdatastore
			trail
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CancelQuery	Grants permission to cancel a running query	Write
CreateEventDataStore	Grants permission to create an event data store	Write	eventdatastore*
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateServiceLinkedChannel [permission only]	Grants permission to create a service-linked channel that specifies the settings for delivery of log data to an AWS service	Write	channel*
CreateTrail	Grants permission to create a trail that specifies the settings for delivery of log data to an Amazon S3 bucket	Write	trail*		s3:PutObject
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
DeleteEventDataStore	Grants permission to delete an event data store	Write	eventdatastore*
DeleteServiceLinkedChannel [permission only]	Grants permission to delete a service-linked channel	Write	channel*
DeleteTrail	Grants permission to delete a trail	Write	trail*
DescribeQuery	Grants permission to list details for the query	Read
DescribeTrails	Grants permission to list settings for the trails associated with the current region for your account	Read
GetEventDataStore	Grants permission to list settings for the event data store	Read
GetEventSelectors	Grants permission to list settings for event selectors configured for a trail	Read	trail*
GetInsightSelectors	Grants permission to list CloudTrail Insights selectors that are configured for a trail	Read	trail*
GetQueryResults	Grants permission to fetch results of a complete query	Read
GetServiceLinkedChannel [permission only]	Grants permission to list settings for the service-linked channel	Read	channel*
GetTrail	Grants permission to list settings for the trail	Read
GetTrailStatus	Grants permission to retrieve a JSON-formatted list of information about the specified trail	Read	trail*
ListEventDataStores	Grants permission to list event data stores associated with the current region for your account	List
ListPublicKeys	Grants permission to list the public keys whose private keys were used to sign trail digest files within a specified time range	Read
ListQueries	Grants permission to list queries associated with an event data store	List
ListServiceLinkedChannels [permission only]	Grants permission to list service-linked channels associated with the current region for a specified account	List
ListTags	Grants permission to list the tags for trails or event data stores in the current region	Read	eventdatastore
			trail
ListTrails	Grants permission to list trails associated with the current region for your account	List
LookupEvents	Grants permission to look up API activity events captured by CloudTrail that create, update, or delete resources in your account	Read
PutEventSelectors	Grants permission to create and update event selectors for a trail	Write	trail*
PutInsightSelectors	Grants permission to create and update CloudTrail Insights selectors for a trail	Write	trail*
RemoveTags	Grants permission to remove tags from a trail	Tagging	eventdatastore
			trail
				aws:TagKeys
RestoreEventDataStore	Grants permission to restore an event data store	Write	eventdatastore*
StartLogging	Grants permission to start the recording of AWS API calls and log file delivery for a trail	Write	trail*
StartQuery	Grants permission to start a new query on a specified event data store	Write
StopLogging	Grants permission to stop the recording of AWS API calls and log file delivery for a trail	Write	trail*
UpdateEventDataStore	Grants permission to update an event data store	Write	eventdatastore*
UpdateServiceLinkedChannel [permission only]	Grants permission to update the settings that specify delivery of log files	Write	channel*
UpdateTrail	Grants permission to update the settings that specify delivery of log files	Write	trail*

Resource types defined by AWS CloudTrail

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 Resource types table.

Note

For policies that control access to CloudTrail actions, the Resource element is always set to "*". For information about using resource ARNs in an IAM policy, see Granting Custom Permissions in the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
trail	arn:${Partition}:cloudtrail:${Region}:${Account}:trail/${TrailName}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
eventdatastore	arn:${Partition}:cloudtrail:${Region}:${Account}:eventdatastore/${EventDataStoreId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
channel	arn:${Partition}:cloudtrail:${Region}:${Account}:channel/${ChannelId}

Condition keys for AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail 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 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/${TagKey}	Filters access by value associated with the resource	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by value associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by value associated with the resource	ArrayOfString