# AWSApplicationMigrationServiceEc2InstancePolicy
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**Description**: This policy allows installing and using the AWS Replication Agent, which is used by AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to migrate source servers that run on EC2 (cross-Region or cross-AZ). An IAM role with this policy should be attached (as an EC2 Instance Profile) to the EC2 Instances.

`AWSApplicationMigrationServiceEc2InstancePolicy` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AWSApplicationMigrationServiceEc2InstancePolicy` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: August 22, 2023, 13:19 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** January 03, 2024, 14:19 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSApplicationMigrationServiceEc2InstancePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v2 (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
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "MgnAgentInstallation",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "mgn:SendClientLogsForMgn",
        "mgn:RegisterAgentForMgn",
        "mgn:GetAgentInstallationAssetsForMgn"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "MgnAgentReplication",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "mgn:SendAgentMetricsForMgn",
        "mgn:SendAgentLogsForMgn",
        "mgn:UpdateAgentSourcePropertiesForMgn",
        "mgn:UpdateAgentReplicationInfoForMgn",
        "mgn:UpdateAgentConversionInfoForMgn",
        "mgn:GetAgentCommandForMgn",
        "mgn:GetAgentConfirmedResumeInfoForMgn",
        "mgn:GetAgentRuntimeConfigurationForMgn",
        "mgn:UpdateAgentBacklogForMgn",
        "mgn:GetAgentReplicationInfoForMgn"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:mgn:*:*:source-server/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "MgnSourceServerTagResource",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "mgn:TagResource",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:mgn:*:*:source-server/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "mgn:CreateAction" : "RegisterAgentForMgn"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)