# AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKSNodegroup
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**Description**: Permissions required for managing nodegroups in the customer's account. These policies related to management of the following resources: AutoscalingGroups, SecurityGroups, LaunchTemplates and InstanceProfiles.

`AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKSNodegroup` 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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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
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+ **Type**: Service-linked role policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 07, 2019, 01:34 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 17, 2026, 18:42 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKSNodegroup`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v11 (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" : "SharedSecurityGroupRelatedPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/eks" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EKSCreatedSecurityGroupRelatedPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/eks:nodegroup-name" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "LaunchTemplateRelatedPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplateVersion"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/eks:nodegroup-name" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AutoscalingRelatedPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:CompleteLifecycleAction",
        "autoscaling:PutLifecycleHook",
        "autoscaling:PutNotificationConfiguration",
        "autoscaling:EnableMetricsCollection",
        "autoscaling:PutScheduledUpdateGroupAction",
        "autoscaling:ResumeProcesses",
        "autoscaling:SuspendProcesses",
        "autoscaling:PutWarmPool",
        "autoscaling:DeleteWarmPool"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:autoscaling:*:*:*:autoScalingGroupName/eks-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowAutoscalingToCreateSLR",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "autoscaling.amazonaws.com"
        }
      },
      "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowASGCreationByEKS",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags",
        "autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAnyValue:StringEquals" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "eks",
            "eks:cluster-name",
            "eks:nodegroup-name"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowPassRoleToAutoscaling",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "autoscaling.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowPassRoleToEC2",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEqualsIfExists" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : [
            "ec2.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PermissionsToManageResourcesForNodegroups",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:GetRole",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "iam:GetInstanceProfile",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
        "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:GetConsoleOutput",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeCapacityReservations",
        "autoscaling:DescribeWarmPool"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PermissionsToCreateAndManageInstanceProfiles",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateInstanceProfile",
        "iam:DeleteInstanceProfile",
        "iam:RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile",
        "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/eks-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PermissionsToDeleteEKSAndKubernetesTags",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "eks",
            "eks:cluster-name",
            "eks:nodegroup-name",
            "kubernetes.io/cluster/*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PermissionsForManagedNodegroupsAutoRepair",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RebootInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/eks:nodegroup-name" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PermissionsToCreateEKSAndKubernetesTags",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "eks",
            "eks:cluster-name",
            "eks:nodegroup-name",
            "kubernetes.io/cluster/*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowTaggingEC2ResourcesOnlyDuringInstanceCreation",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
        "arn:*:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "RunInstances"
          ]
        },
        "ForAnyValue:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "eks",
            "eks:cluster-name",
            "eks:nodegroup-name",
            "kubernetes.io/cluster/*"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [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)