# AWSQuickSetupPatchPolicyPermissionsBoundary
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**Description**: QuickSetup creates IAM roles which enable it to configure the Systems Manager Patch Manager feature on your behalf, and uses this policy when creating such roles to define the boundary of their permissions.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: June 26, 2024, 09:46 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** March 05, 2026, 16:57 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSQuickSetupPatchPolicyPermissionsBoundary`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v5 (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" : "PatchingAutomationRoleGetPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:GetRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-QuickSetup-AutomationRole-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PatchingAutomationRolePassPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-QuickSetup-AutomationRole-*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : [
            "ssm.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DefaultInstanceRolePermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateRole",
        "iam:DeleteRole",
        "iam:UpdateRole",
        "iam:GetRole"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:PrincipalTag/QuickSetupManagerID" : "*"
        },
        "ArnLike" : {
          "aws:PrincipalArn" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-QuickSetup-AutomationRole-*"
        }
      },
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DefaultInstanceRolePassPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : [
            "ec2.amazonaws.com",
            "ssm.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PoliciesAttachPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
        "iam:DetachRolePolicy"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "ArnEquals" : {
          "iam:PolicyARN" : [
            "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore",
            "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSQuickSetupPatchPolicyBaselineAccess"
          ]
        },
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:PrincipalTag/QuickSetupManagerID" : "*"
        },
        "ArnLike" : {
          "aws:PrincipalArn" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-QuickSetup-AutomationRole-*"
        }
      },
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateSLRPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/ssm.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonSSM"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "ssm.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "InstanceRoleAddPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ManagedInstanceRoleUpdatePermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:UpdateManagedInstanceRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "IAMReadOnlyPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:GetInstanceProfile",
        "iam:GetRolePolicy",
        "iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole",
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "InstanceProfileCreatePermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "InstanceProfileAssociationPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "ec2:InstanceProfile" : "true"
        },
        "ArnLike" : {
          "ec2:NewInstanceProfile" : "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "InstanceProfileDisassociationPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DisassociateIamInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ArnLike" : {
          "ec2:InstanceProfile" : "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/AmazonSSMRoleForInstancesQuickSetup"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "SSMAssociationsPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DescribeAssociationExecutions",
        "ssm:UpdateAssociation",
        "ssm:DescribeAssociation"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWSQuickSetup-*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:association/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "BaselineS3Permissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "s3:Put*",
        "s3:Get*",
        "s3:List*",
        "s3:DeleteObject",
        "s3:DeleteObjectVersion",
        "s3:DeleteBucket"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : [
            "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
          ]
        }
      },
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:s3:::aws-quicksetup-patchpolicy-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PatchingFunctionsPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "lambda:InvokeFunction"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:baseline-overrides-*",
        "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:delete-name-tags-*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceAccount" : [
            "${aws:PrincipalAccount}"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "LoggingPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/lambda/baseline-overrides-*",
        "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/lambda/delete-name-tags-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "SSMTaggingPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:AddTagsToResource",
        "ssm:RemoveTagsFromResource"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:managed-instance/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAllValues:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : "QSConfigName-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EC2TaggingPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAllValues:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : "QSConfigName-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "RoleTaggingPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:TagRole",
        "iam:UntagRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAllValues:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : "QSConfigId-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PatchingReadOnlyPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:GetPatchBaseline",
        "ssm:GetInventory",
        "ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation",
        "ssm:DescribeAssociation",
        "ssm:GetAutomationExecution",
        "ssm:ListTagsForResource",
        "ec2:DescribeIamInstanceProfileAssociations",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PatchingAutomationsStartPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:StartAutomationExecution"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-EnableExplorer*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-RunPatchBaseline*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-AttachIAMToInstance*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/QuickSetup-*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWSQuickSetup-*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-EnableExplorer*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-RunPatchBaseline*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-AttachIAMToInstance*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/QuickSetup-*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWSQuickSetup-*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-execution/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ReadOnlyPermissionsForEnablingExplorer",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "config:DescribeConfigurationRecorders",
        "compute-optimizer:GetEnrollmentStatus",
        "support:DescribeTrustedAdvisorChecks"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ExplorerServiceSettingsPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:UpdateServiceSetting",
        "ssm:GetServiceSetting"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsitem/ssm-patchmanager",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsitem/EC2",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsdata/ExplorerOnboarded",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsdata/Association",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsdata/ComputeOptimizer",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsdata/ConfigCompliance",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsdata/OpsData-TrustedAdvisor",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:servicesetting/ssm/opsdata/SupportCenterCase"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)