# AWSUserNotificationsServiceLinkedRolePolicy
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**Description**: Allows AWS User Notifications to call AWS services on your behalf.

`AWSUserNotificationsServiceLinkedRolePolicy` 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**: April 19, 2023, 13:28 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:01 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AWSUserNotificationsServiceLinkedRolePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v7 (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" : [
        "events:DescribeRule",
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:PutTargets",
        "events:DeleteRule",
        "events:ListTargetsByRule",
        "events:RemoveTargets"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:events:*:*:rule/AWSUserNotificationsManagedRule-*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "cloudwatch:namespace" : "AWS/Notifications"
        }
      },
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOrgsActions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListChildren",
        "organizations:ListParents"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "OrganizationsAdminDataAccess",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal" : [
            "notifications.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "OrganizationNotificationConfigurationDistribution",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "notifications:CreateNotificationConfiguration",
        "notifications:DeleteNotificationConfiguration",
        "notifications:CreateEventRule",
        "notifications:UpdateEventRule",
        "notifications:DeleteEventRule"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)