# AWSConfigRulesExecutionRole
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**Description**: Allows an AWS Lambda function to access the AWS Config API and the configuration snapshots that AWS Config delivers periodically to Amazon S3. This access is required by functions that evaluate configuration changes for custom Config rules.

`AWSConfigRulesExecutionRole` 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 `AWSConfigRulesExecutionRole` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: March 25, 2016, 17:59 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** May 13, 2019, 21:33 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSConfigRulesExecutionRole`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v3 (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" : [
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "s3:GetObject"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:s3:::*/AWSLogs/*/Config/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "config:Put*",
        "config:Get*",
        "config:List*",
        "config:Describe*",
        "config:BatchGet*",
        "config:Select*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)