# AmazonEKSComputePolicy
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**Description**: Policy attached to the EKS Cluster Role that grants permissions to manage the cluster's compute resources.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 01, 2024, 21:46 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** April 17, 2026, 21:27 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSComputePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v6 (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:CreateFleet",
        "ec2:RunInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:placement-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:capacity-reservation/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*::image/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateFleet",
        "ec2:RunInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/eks:eks-cluster-name" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateFleet",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:eks-cluster-name" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        },
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:kubernetes-node-class-name" : "*",
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:kubernetes-node-pool-name" : "*"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringLike" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "eks:eks-cluster-name",
            "eks:kubernetes-node-class-name",
            "eks:kubernetes-node-pool-name",
            "kubernetes.io/cluster/*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateFleet",
            "RunInstances",
            "CreateLaunchTemplate"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/eks*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : [
            "ec2.amazonaws.com",
            "ec2.amazonaws.com.rproxy.goskope.com.cn"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/spot.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForEC2Spot"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "spot.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)