# AmazonEC2ContainerServiceforEC2Role
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**Description**: Default policy for the Amazon EC2 Role for Amazon EC2 Container Service.

`AmazonEC2ContainerServiceforEC2Role` 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 `AmazonEC2ContainerServiceforEC2Role` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: March 19, 2015, 18:45 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 17:59 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2ContainerServiceforEC2Role`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v10 (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" : [
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ecs:CreateCluster",
        "ecs:DeregisterContainerInstance",
        "ecs:DiscoverPollEndpoint",
        "ecs:Poll",
        "ecs:RegisterContainerInstance",
        "ecs:StartTelemetrySession",
        "ecs:UpdateContainerInstancesState",
        "ecs:Submit*",
        "ecr:GetAuthorizationToken",
        "ecr:BatchCheckLayerAvailability",
        "ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer",
        "ecr:BatchGetImage",
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ecs:TagResource",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ecs:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateCluster",
            "RegisterContainerInstance"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ecs:ListTagsForResource"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ecs:*:*:task/*/*",
        "arn:aws:ecs:*:*:container-instance/*/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)