# AmazonECSServiceRolePolicy
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**Description**: Policy to enable Amazon ECS to manage your cluster.

`AmazonECSServiceRolePolicy` 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**: October 14, 2017, 01:18 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 17:58 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/AmazonECSServiceRolePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v23 (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" : "ECSTaskManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:AssociateTrunkInterface",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterfacePermission",
        "ec2:Describe*",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DisassociateTrunkInterface",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:Describe*",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
        "route53:ChangeResourceRecordSets",
        "route53:CreateHealthCheck",
        "route53:DeleteHealthCheck",
        "route53:Get*",
        "route53:List*",
        "route53:UpdateHealthCheck",
        "servicediscovery:DeregisterInstance",
        "servicediscovery:Get*",
        "servicediscovery:List*",
        "servicediscovery:RegisterInstance",
        "servicediscovery:UpdateInstanceCustomHealthStatus"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AutoScaling",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "autoscaling:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AutoScalingManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "autoscaling:DeletePolicy",
        "autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
        "autoscaling:SetInstanceProtection",
        "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
        "autoscaling:PutLifecycleHook",
        "autoscaling:DeleteLifecycleHook",
        "autoscaling:CompleteLifecycleAction",
        "autoscaling:RecordLifecycleActionHeartbeat"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "autoscaling:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "false"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AutoScalingPlanManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "autoscaling-plans:CreateScalingPlan",
        "autoscaling-plans:DeleteScalingPlan",
        "autoscaling-plans:DescribeScalingPlans",
        "autoscaling-plans:DescribeScalingPlanResources"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EventBridge",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "events:DescribeRule",
        "events:ListTargetsByRule"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:events:*:*:rule/ecs-managed-*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "EventBridgeRuleManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "events:PutRule",
        "events:PutTargets"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "events:ManagedBy" : "ecs.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CWAlarmManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ECSTagging",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CWLogGroupManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:CreateLogGroup",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:PutRetentionPolicy"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/ecs/*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CWLogStreamManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/ecs/*:log-stream:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ExecuteCommandSessionManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:DescribeSessions"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ExecuteCommand",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:StartSession"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ecs:*:*:task/*",
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AmazonECS-ExecuteInteractiveCommand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "OpenDataChannel",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:session/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:PrincipalAccount" : "${aws:ResourceAccount}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudMapResourceCreation",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "servicediscovery:CreateHttpNamespace",
        "servicediscovery:CreateService"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "AmazonECSManaged"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudMapResourceTagging",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "servicediscovery:TagResource",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudMapResourceDeletion",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "servicediscovery:DeleteService"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "false"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudMapResourceDiscovery",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "servicediscovery:DiscoverInstances",
        "servicediscovery:DiscoverInstancesRevision"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudMapResourceAttributeManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "servicediscovery:UpdateServiceAttributes"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "Null" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AmazonECSManaged" : "false"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "ReadOnlyPermissionsForInstanceEventWindows",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceEventWindows"
      ],
      "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)