AWS::IAM::RolePolicy - AWS CloudFormation
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AWS::IAM::RolePolicy

Adds or updates an inline policy document that is embedded in the specified IAM role.

When you embed an inline policy in a role, the inline policy is used as part of the role's access (permissions) policy. The role's trust policy is created at the same time as the role, using CreateRole. You can update a role's trust policy using UpdateAssumeRolePolicy. For information about roles, see IAM roles in the IAM User Guide.

A role can also have a managed policy attached to it. To attach a managed policy to a role, use AWS::IAM::Role. To create a new managed policy, use AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy. For information about policies, see Managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide.

For information about the maximum number of inline policies that you can embed with a role, see IAM and AWS STS quotas in the IAM User Guide.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON

{
  "Type" : "AWS::IAM::RolePolicy",
  "Properties" : {
      "PolicyDocument" : Json,
      "PolicyName" : String,
      "RoleName" : String
    }
}

YAML

Type: AWS::IAM::RolePolicy
Properties:
  PolicyDocument: Json
  PolicyName: String
  RoleName: String

Properties

PolicyDocument

The policy document.

You must provide policies in JSON format in IAM. However, for AWS CloudFormation templates formatted in YAML, you can provide the policy in JSON or YAML format. AWS CloudFormation always converts a YAML policy to JSON format before submitting it to IAM.

The regex pattern used to validate this parameter is a string of characters consisting of the following:

  • Any printable ASCII character ranging from the space character (\u0020) through the end of the ASCII character range

  • The printable characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement character set (through \u00FF)

  • The special characters tab (\u0009), line feed (\u000A), and carriage return (\u000D)

Required: No

Type: Json

Pattern: [\u0009\u000A\u000D\u0020-\u00FF]+

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 131072

Update requires: No interruption

PolicyName

The name of the policy document.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

Required: Yes

Type: String

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 128

Update requires: Replacement

RoleName

The name of the role to associate the policy with.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

Required: Yes

Type: String

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 64

Update requires: Replacement

Return values

Ref

When the logical ID of this resource is provided to the Ref intrinsic function, Ref returns the resource name.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

Examples

IAM role embedded inline policy document

This example shows an inline policy document in AWS::IAM::RolePolicy. The policy will be embedded in the specified IAM role, RootRole.

JSON

{
    "Type": "AWS::IAM::RolePolicy",
    "Properties": {
        "PolicyName": "root",
        "PolicyDocument": {
            "Version": "2012-10-17",
            "Statement": [
                {
                    "Effect": "Allow",
                    "Action": "*",
                    "Resource": "*"
                }
            ]
        },
        "RoleName": "RootRole"
    }
}

YAML

Type: 'AWS::IAM::RolePolicy'
Properties:
  PolicyName: root
  PolicyDocument:
    Version: "2012-10-17"
    Statement:
      - Effect: Allow
        Action: '*'
        Resource: '*'
  RoleName: RootRole

IAM role embedded inline policy document with Ref function

This example shows an inline policy document in AWS::IAM::RolePolicy. The example uses the Ref function in the RoleName property to specify the logical ID of a AWS::IAM::Role resource. For the logical ID of the AWS::IAM::Role resource, Ref returns the role name.

JSON

{
    "Type": "AWS::IAM::RolePolicy",
    "Properties": {
        "PolicyName": "root",
        "PolicyDocument": {
            "Version": "2012-10-17",
            "Statement": [
                {
                    "Effect": "Allow",
                    "Action": "*",
                    "Resource": "*"
                }
            ]
        },
        "RoleName": {
            "Ref": "RootRole"
        }
    }
}

YAML

Type: 'AWS::IAM::RolePolicy'
Properties:
  PolicyName: root
  PolicyDocument:
    Version: "2012-10-17"
    Statement:
      - Effect: Allow
        Action: '*'
        Resource: '*'
  RoleName: !Ref RootRole

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