AWS managed policies for Amazon Translate

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. AWS managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.

Keep in mind that AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all AWS customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.

You cannot change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. If AWS updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. AWS is most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new AWS service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: TranslateFullAccess

This policy grants full access to Amazon Translate resources, the Amazon Comprehend DetectDominantLanguage API operation, and required CloudWatch API operations. The policy also grants list and get permissions for Amazon S3 buckets and IAM roles.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "translate:*",
                "comprehend:DetectDominantLanguage",
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
                "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                "iam:ListRoles",
                "iam:GetRole"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
        

AWS managed policy: TranslateReadOnly

This policy grants permission to access the Amazon Translate API operations that do not modify resources associated with your account. The policy also grants permission to access the Amazon Comprehend DetectDominantLanguage API operation and required CloudWatch API operations.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": [
                "translate:TranslateText",
                "translate:TranslateDocument",
                "translate:GetTerminology",
                "translate:ListTerminologies",
                "translate:ListTextTranslationJobs",
                "translate:DescribeTextTranslationJob",
                "translate:GetParallelData",
                "translate:ListParallelData",
                "comprehend:DetectDominantLanguage",
                "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
                "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
            ],
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
        

Amazon Translate updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for Amazon Translate since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the Amazon Translate Document history page.

Change	Description	Date
TranslateReadOnly – Update to an existing policy	Amazon Translate now allows the TranslateDocument action in the TranslateReadOnly policy	May 23, 2023
Amazon Translate started tracking changes	Amazon Translate started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.	May 23, 2023