# AmazonDynamoDBReadOnlyAccess
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**Description**: Provides read only access to Amazon DynamoDB via the AWS Management Console.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: February 06, 2015, 18:40 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** November 18, 2024, 17:38 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonDynamoDBReadOnlyAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v15 (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" : "GeneralReadOnlyAccess",
      "Action" : [
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
        "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
        "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
        "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
        "datapipeline:DescribeObjects",
        "datapipeline:DescribePipelines",
        "datapipeline:GetPipelineDefinition",
        "datapipeline:ListPipelines",
        "datapipeline:QueryObjects",
        "dynamodb:BatchGetItem",
        "dynamodb:Describe*",
        "dynamodb:List*",
        "dynamodb:GetAbacStatus",
        "dynamodb:GetItem",
        "dynamodb:GetResourcePolicy",
        "dynamodb:Query",
        "dynamodb:Scan",
        "dynamodb:PartiQLSelect",
        "dax:Describe*",
        "dax:List*",
        "dax:GetItem",
        "dax:BatchGetItem",
        "dax:Query",
        "dax:Scan",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "kms:DescribeKey",
        "kms:ListAliases",
        "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",
        "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
        "resource-groups:ListGroups",
        "resource-groups:ListGroupResources",
        "resource-groups:GetGroup",
        "resource-groups:GetGroupQuery",
        "tag:GetResources",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "kinesis:DescribeStream",
        "kinesis:DescribeStreamSummary"
      ],
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CCIAccess",
      "Action" : "cloudwatch:GetInsightRuleReport",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:insight-rule/DynamoDBContributorInsights*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)