Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect (service prefix: directconnect) 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 Direct Connect

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
AcceptDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal	Accepts a proposal request to attach a virtual private gateway to a Direct Connect gateway.	Write	dx-gateway*
AllocateConnectionOnInterconnect	Creates a hosted connection on an interconnect.	Write	dxcon*
AllocateHostedConnection	Creates a new hosted connection between a AWS Direct Connect partner's network and a specific AWS Direct Connect location.	Write	dxcon
			dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
AllocatePrivateVirtualInterface	Provisions a private virtual interface to be owned by a different customer.	Write	dxcon
			dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
AllocatePublicVirtualInterface	Provisions a public virtual interface to be owned by a different customer.	Write	dxcon
			dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
AllocateTransitVirtualInterface	Provisions a transit virtual interface to be owned by a different customer.	Write	dxcon
			dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
AssociateConnectionWithLag	Associates a connection with a LAG.	Write	dxcon*
			dxlag*
AssociateHostedConnection	Associates a hosted connection and its virtual interfaces with a link aggregation group (LAG) or interconnect.	Write	dxcon*
			dxcon
			dxlag
AssociateVirtualInterface	Associates a virtual interface with a specified link aggregation group (LAG) or connection.	Write	dxvif*
			dxcon
			dxlag
ConfirmConnection	Confirm the creation of a hosted connection on an interconnect.	Write	dxcon*
ConfirmPrivateVirtualInterface	Accept ownership of a private virtual interface created by another customer.	Write	dxvif*
ConfirmPublicVirtualInterface	Accept ownership of a public virtual interface created by another customer	Write	dxvif*
ConfirmTransitVirtualInterface	Accept ownership of a transit virtual interface created by another customer	Write	dxvif*
CreateBGPPeer	Creates a BGP peer on the specified virtual interface.	Write	dxvif*
CreateConnection	Creates a new connection between the customer network and a specific AWS Direct Connect location.	Write	dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateDirectConnectGateway	Creates a Direct Connect gateway, which is an intermediate object that enables you to connect a set of virtual interfaces and virtual private gateways.	Write
CreateDirectConnectGatewayAssociation	Creates an association between a Direct Connect gateway and a virtual private gateway.	Write	dx-gateway*
CreateDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal	Creates a proposal to associate the specified virtual private gateway with the specified Direct Connect gateway.	Write	dx-gateway*
CreateInterconnect	Creates a new interconnect between a AWS Direct Connect partner's network and a specific AWS Direct Connect location.	Write	dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateLag	Creates a link aggregation group (LAG) with the specified number of bundled physical connections between the customer network and a specific AWS Direct Connect location.	Write	dxcon
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreatePrivateVirtualInterface	Creates a new private virtual interface.	Write	dxcon
			dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreatePublicVirtualInterface	Creates a new public virtual interface.	Write	dxcon
			dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateTransitVirtualInterface	Creates a new transit virtual interface.	Write	dxcon
			dxlag
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
DeleteBGPPeer	Deletes the specified BGP peer on the specified virtual interface with the specified customer address and ASN.	Write	dxvif*
DeleteConnection	Deletes the connection.	Write	dxcon*
DeleteDirectConnectGateway	Deletes the specified Direct Connect gateway.	Write	dx-gateway*
DeleteDirectConnectGatewayAssociation	Deletes the association between the specified Direct Connect gateway and virtual private gateway.	Write	dx-gateway*
DeleteDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposal	Deletes the association proposal request between the specified Direct Connect gateway and virtual private gateway.	Write
DeleteInterconnect	Deletes the specified interconnect.	Write	dxcon*
DeleteLag	Deletes the specified link aggregation group (LAG).	Write	dxlag*
DeleteVirtualInterface	Deletes a virtual interface.	Write	dxvif*
DescribeConnectionLoa	Returns the LOA-CFA for a Connection.	Read	dxcon*
DescribeConnections	Displays all connections in this region.	Read	dxcon
DescribeConnectionsOnInterconnect	Return a list of connections that have been provisioned on the given interconnect.	Read	dxcon*
DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociationProposals	Describes one or more association proposals for connection between a virtual private gateway and a Direct Connect gateway.	Read	dx-gateway
DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAssociations	Lists the associations between your Direct Connect gateways and virtual private gateways.	Read	dx-gateway
DescribeDirectConnectGatewayAttachments	Lists the attachments between your Direct Connect gateways and virtual interfaces.	Read	dx-gateway
DescribeDirectConnectGateways	Lists all your Direct Connect gateways or only the specified Direct Connect gateway.	Read	dx-gateway
DescribeHostedConnections	Lists the hosted connections that have been provisioned on the specified interconnect or link aggregation group (LAG).	Read	dxcon
			dxlag
DescribeInterconnectLoa	Returns the LOA-CFA for an Interconnect.	Read	dxcon*
DescribeInterconnects	Returns a list of interconnects owned by the AWS account.	Read	dxcon
DescribeLags	Describes all your link aggregation groups (LAG) or the specified LAG.	Read	dxlag
DescribeLoa	Gets the LOA-CFA for a connection, interconnect, or link aggregation group (LAG).	Read	dxcon
			dxlag
DescribeLocations	Returns the list of AWS Direct Connect locations in the current AWS region.	List
DescribeTags	Describes the tags associated with the specified AWS Direct Connect resources.	Read	dxcon
			dxlag
			dxvif
DescribeVirtualGateways	Returns a list of virtual private gateways owned by the AWS account.	Read
DescribeVirtualInterfaces	Displays all virtual interfaces for an AWS account.	Read	dxcon
			dxlag
			dxvif
DisassociateConnectionFromLag	Disassociates a connection from a link aggregation group (LAG).	Write	dxcon*
			dxlag*
ListVirtualInterfaceTestHistory	Lists the virtual interface failover test history.	List	dxvif*
StartBgpFailoverTest	Starts the virtual interface failover test that verifies your configuration meets your resiliency requirements by placing the BGP peering session in the DOWN state. You can then send traffic to verify that there are no outages.	Write	dxvif*
StopBgpFailoverTest	Stops the virtual interface failover test.	Write	dxvif*
TagResource	Adds the specified tags to the specified AWS Direct Connect resource. Each resource can have a maximum of 50 tags.	Tagging	dxcon
			dxlag
			dxvif
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Removes one or more tags from the specified AWS Direct Connect resource.	Tagging	dxcon
			dxlag
			dxvif
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateDirectConnectGatewayAssociation	Updates the specified attributes of the Direct Connect gateway association.	Write
UpdateLag	Updates the attributes of the specified link aggregation group (LAG).	Write	dxlag*
UpdateVirtualInterfaceAttributes	Updates the specified attributes of the specified virtual private interface.	Write	dxvif*

Resource types defined by AWS Direct Connect

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
dxcon	arn:${Partition}:directconnect:${Region}:${Account}:dxcon/${ConnectionId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
dxlag	arn:${Partition}:directconnect:${Region}:${Account}:dxlag/${LagId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
dxvif	arn:${Partition}:directconnect:${Region}:${Account}:dxvif/${VirtualInterfaceId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
dx-gateway	arn:${Partition}:directconnect::${Account}:dx-gateway/${DirectConnectGatewayId}

Condition keys for AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect 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/${TagKey}	Filters actions based on the presence of tag key-value pairs in the request	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters actions based on tag key-value pairs attached to the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters actions based on the presence of tag keys in the request	String