AWS managed policies for Amazon EC2

To add permissions to users, groups, and roles, it is easier to use AWS managed policies than to write policies yourself. It takes time and expertise to create IAM customer managed policies that provide your team with only the permissions they need. To get started quickly, you can use our AWS managed policies. These policies cover common use cases and are available in your AWS account. For more information about AWS managed policies, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS services maintain and update AWS managed policies. You can't change the permissions in AWS managed policies. Services occasionally add additional permissions to an AWS managed policy to support new features. This type of update affects all identities (users, groups, and roles) where the policy is attached. Services are most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new feature is launched or when new operations become available. Services do not remove permissions from an AWS managed policy, so policy updates won't break your existing permissions.

Additionally, AWS supports managed policies for job functions that span multiple services. For example, the ReadOnlyAccess AWS managed policy provides read-only access to all AWS services and resources. When a service launches a new feature, AWS adds read-only permissions for new operations and resources. For a list and descriptions of job function policies, see AWS managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: AmazonEC2FullAccess

You can attach the AmazonEC2FullAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow full access to Amazon EC2.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AmazonEC2FullAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow read-only access to Amazon EC2.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AmazonEC2ReadOnlyAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSEC2CapacityReservationFleetRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForEC2CapacityReservationFleet to allow Capacity Reservations to create, modify, and cancel Capacity Reservations on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked role for Capacity Reservation Fleet.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSEC2CapacityReservationFleetRolePolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSEC2FleetServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForEC2Fleet to allow EC2 Fleet to request, launch, terminate, and tag instances on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked role for EC2 Fleet.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSEC2FleetServiceRolePolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSEC2SpotFleetServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForEC2SpotFleet to allow Spot Fleet to launch and manage instances on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked role for Spot Fleet.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSEC2SpotFleetServiceRolePolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSEC2SpotServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForEC2Spot to allow Amazon EC2 to launch and manage Spot Instances on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked role for Spot Instance requests.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSEC2SpotServiceRolePolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AWSEC2VssSnapshotPolicy

You can attach this managed policy to the IAM instance profile role that you use for your Amazon EC2 Windows instances. The policy grants permissions to allow Amazon EC2 to create and manage VSS snapshots on your behalf.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSEC2VssSnapshotPolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: EC2FastLaunchFullAccess

You can attach the EC2FastLaunchFullAccess policy to your instance profile or other IAM role. This policy grants full access to EC2 Fast Launch actions, and targeted permissions as follows.

To view the permissions for this policy, see EC2FastLaunchFullAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: EC2FastLaunchServiceRolePolicy

This policy is attached to the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForEC2FastLaunch to allow Amazon EC2 to create and manage a set of pre-provisioned snapshots that reduce the time it takes to launch instances from your EC2 Fast Launch-enabled AMI. For more information, see Service-linked role for EC2 Fast Launch.

To view the permissions for this policy, see EC2FastLaunchServiceRolePolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: Ec2InstanceConnectEndpoint

This policy is attached to a service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForEC2InstanceConnect to allow EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked role for EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint.

To view the permissions for this policy, see Ec2InstanceConnectEndpoint in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

Amazon EC2 updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for Amazon EC2 since this service began tracking these changes.