# AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForManagedInstances
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**Description**: Provides ECS access to create and manage EC2 managed resources

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: September 26, 2025, 18:04 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 26, 2026, 18:27 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonECSInfrastructureRolePolicyForManagedInstances`

## 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" : "CreateLaunchTemplateForManagedInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateLaunchTemplateVersionsForManagedInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplateVersion",
        "ec2:ModifyLaunchTemplate"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:ManagedResourceOperator" : "ecs.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ProvisionEC2InstancesForManagedInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateFleet"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:fleet/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateFleetForSupportingResources",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateFleet"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*::image/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "RunInstancesForManagedInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RunInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "RunInstancesForECSManagedLaunchTemplates",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RunInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "RunInstancesForSupportingResources",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RunInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*::image/*",
        "arn:aws:resource-groups:*:*:group/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "TagOnCreateEC2ResourcesForManagedInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:fleet/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateFleet",
            "CreateLaunchTemplate",
            "RunInstances"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "PassInstanceRoleForManagedInstances",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/ecsInstanceRole*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "ec2.*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateServiceLinkedRoleForEC2Spot",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/spot.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForEC2Spot"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "DescribeEC2ResourcesManagedByECS",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
        "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeCapacityReservations"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ListResourceGroupResources",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "resource-groups:ListGroupResources",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
        "tag:GetResources"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)