AWS managed policies for AWS Resource Groups

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: ResourceGroupsServiceRolePolicy

You can't attach ResourceGroupsServiceRolePolicy to any IAM entities yourself. This policy can be attached only to a service-linked role that allows Resource Groups to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Resource Groups.

This policy grants the permissions required for Resource Groups to retrieve information about the resources in your resource groups and any AWS CloudFormation stacks that those resources belong to. This lets Resource Groups generate CloudWatch Events for the group lifecycle events feature.

To see the latest version of this AWS managed policy, see ResourceGroupsServiceRolePolicy in the IAM console.

AWS managed policy: ResourceGroupsandTagEditorFullAccess

When you attach a policy to a principal entity, you give the entity permissions that are defined in the policy. AWS managed policies make it easier for you to assign appropriate permissions to users, groups, and roles than if you had to write the policies yourself.

This policy grants the permissions required for full access to Resource Groups and Tag Editor functionality.

To see the latest version of this AWS managed policy, see ResourceGroupsandTagEditorFullAccess in the IAM console.

For more information about this policy, see ResourceGroupsandTagEditorFullAccessin the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide.

AWS managed policy: ResourceGroupsandTagEditorReadOnlyAccess

When you attach a policy to a principal entity, you give the entity permissions that are defined in the policy. AWS managed policies make it easier for you to assign appropriate permissions to users, groups, and roles than if you had to write the policies yourself.

This policy grants the permissions required for read only access to Resource Groups and Tag Editor functionality.

To see the latest version of this AWS managed policy, see ResourceGroupsandTagEditorReadOnlyAccess in the IAM console.

For more information about this policy, see ResourceGroupsandTagEditorReadOnlyAccessin the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide.

Resource Groups updates to AWS managed policies

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