Examples of policy summaries

The following examples include JSON policies with their associated policy summaries, the service summaries, and the action summaries to help you understand the permissions given through a policy.

Policy 1: DenyCustomerBucket

This policy demonstrates an allow and a deny for the same service.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "FullAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": ["s3:*"],
            "Resource": ["*"]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "DenyCustomerBucket",
            "Action": ["s3:*"],
            "Effect": "Deny",
            "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::customer", "arn:aws:s3:::customer/*" ]
        }
    ]
}

DenyCustomerBucket Policy Summary:

DenyCustomerBucket S3 (Explicit deny) Service Summary:

GetObject (Read) Action Summary:

Policy 2: DynamoDbRowCognitoID

This policy provides row-level access to Amazon DynamoDB based on the user's Amazon Cognito ID.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "dynamodb:DeleteItem",
                "dynamodb:GetItem",
                "dynamodb:PutItem",
                "dynamodb:UpdateItem"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-west-1:123456789012:table/myDynamoTable"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
                    "dynamodb:LeadingKeys": [
                        "${cognito-identity.amazonaws.com:sub}"
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

DynamoDbRowCognitoID Policy Summary:

DynamoDbRowCognitoID DynamoDB (Allow) Service Summary:

GetItem (List) Action Summary:

Policy 3: MultipleResourceCondition

This policy includes multiple resources and conditions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:PutObjectAcl"
            ],
            "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::Apple_bucket/*"],
            "Condition": {"StringEquals": {"s3:x-amz-acl": ["public-read"]}}
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:PutObjectAcl"
            ],
            "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::Orange_bucket/*"],
            "Condition": {"StringEquals": {
                "s3:x-amz-acl": ["custom"],
                "s3:x-amz-grant-full-control": ["1234"]
            }}
        }
    ]
}

MultipleResourceCondition Policy Summary:

MultipleResourceCondition S3 (Allow) Service Summary:

PutObject (Write) Action Summary:

Policy 4: EC2_troubleshoot

The following policy allows users to get a screenshot of a running Amazon EC2 instance, which can help with EC2 troubleshooting. This policy also permits viewing information about the items in the Amazon S3 developer bucket.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:GetConsoleScreenshot"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:ListBucket"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::developer"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

EC2_Troubleshoot Policy Summary:

EC2_Troubleshoot S3 (Allow) Service Summary:

ListBucket (List) Action Summary:

Policy 5: CodeBuild_CodeCommit_CodeDeploy

This policy provides access to specific CodeBuild, CodeCommit, and CodeDeploy resources. Because these resources are specific to each service, they appear only with the matching service. If you include a resource that does not match any services in the Action element, then the resource appears in all action summaries.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1487980617000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codebuild:*",
                "codecommit:*",
                "codedeploy:*"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:codebuild:us-east-2:123456789012:project/my-demo-project",
                "arn:aws:codecommit:us-east-2:123456789012:MyDemoRepo",
                "arn:aws:codedeploy:us-east-2:123456789012:application:WordPress_App",
                "arn:aws:codedeploy:us-east-2:123456789012:instance/AssetTag*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

CodeBuild_CodeCommit_CodeDeploy Policy Summary:

CodeBuild_CodeCommit_CodeDeploy CodeBuild (Allow) Service Summary:

CodeBuild_CodeCommit_CodeDeploy StartBuild (Write) Action Summary: