# AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy
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**Description**: This policy allows installing the AWS Replication Agent, which is used with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) to recover external servers to AWS. Attach this policy to your IAM users or roles whose credentials you provide during the installation step of the AWS Replication Agent.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 17, 2021, 10:37 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** November 27, 2023, 12:38 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v6 (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" : "DRSAgentInstallationPolicy1",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "drs:GetAgentInstallationAssetsForDrs",
        "drs:SendClientLogsForDrs",
        "drs:SendClientMetricsForDrs",
        "drs:CreateSourceServerForDrs",
        "drs:CreateRecoveryInstanceForDrs",
        "drs:DescribeRecoveryInstances",
        "drs:CreateSourceNetwork"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DRSAgentInstallationPolicy2",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "drs:TagResource",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:drs:*:*:source-server/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "drs:CreateAction" : "CreateSourceServerForDrs"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DRSAgentInstallationPolicy3",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "drs:TagResource",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:drs:*:*:source-server/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "drs:CreateAction" : "CreateRecoveryInstanceForDrs"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DRSAgentInstallationPolicy4",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "drs:TagResource",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:drs:*:*:source-network/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "drs:CreateAction" : "CreateSourceNetwork"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DRSAgentInstallationPolicy5",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "drs:IssueAgentCertificateForDrs",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:drs:*:*:source-server/*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)