AWSApplicationAutoscalingElastiCacheRGPolicy

Description: Policy granting permissions to Application Auto Scaling to access Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon CloudWatch.

AWSApplicationAutoscalingElastiCacheRGPolicy is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows the service to perform actions on your behalf. You cannot attach this policy to your users, groups, or roles.

Policy details

Policy version

Policy version: v1 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request.

JSON policy document

{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticache:DescribeReplicationGroups",
        "elasticache:ModifyReplicationGroupShardConfiguration",
        "elasticache:IncreaseReplicaCount",
        "elasticache:DecreaseReplicaCount",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheClusters",
        "elasticache:DescribeCacheParameters",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:TargetTracking*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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