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

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: October 30, 2024, 20:18 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** April 14, 2026, 20:27 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSLoadBalancingPolicy`

## 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" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateRule",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:eks-cluster-name" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "eks:eks-cluster-name",
            "ingress.eks.amazonaws.com/stack",
            "ingress.eks.amazonaws.com/resource",
            "service.eks.amazonaws.com/stack",
            "service.eks.amazonaws.com/resource"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/*/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group-rule/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:eks-cluster-name" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/Name" : "eks-cluster-sg*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/eks:eks-cluster-name" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "elasticloadbalancing:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateLoadBalancer",
            "CreateTargetGroup",
            "CreateListener",
            "CreateRule"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateSecurityGroup",
            "AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyLoadBalancerAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetIpAddressType",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetSecurityGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetSubnets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyTargetGroupAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddListenerCertificates",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListenerAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RemoveListenerCertificates",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyRule",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyIpPools",
        "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyCapacityReservation"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/eks:eks-cluster-name" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "wafv2:AssociateWebACL",
        "wafv2:DisassociateWebACL"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:wafv2:*:*:*/webacl/*/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/app/*/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "shield:CreateProtection",
        "shield:DeleteProtection"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "shield:TagResource"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:shield::*:protection/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/eks:eks-cluster-name" : "${aws:PrincipalTag/eks:eks-cluster-name}"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : {
          "aws:TagKeys" : [
            "eks:eks-cluster-name",
            "ingress.eks.amazonaws.com/stack",
            "ingress.eks.amazonaws.com/resource",
            "service.eks.amazonaws.com/stack",
            "service.eks.amazonaws.com/resource"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cognito-idp:DescribeUserPoolClient",
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "acm:DescribeCertificate",
        "wafv2:GetWebACL",
        "wafv2:GetWebACLForResource",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetWebAcl",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeClassicLinkInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeCoipPools",
        "ec2:GetCoipPoolUsage",
        "ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForElasticLoadBalancing",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "elasticloadbalancing.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)