# AmazonEKSServicePolicy
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**Description**: This policy allows Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes to create and manage the necessary resources to operate EKS Clusters.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: May 27, 2018, 21:08 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** October 14, 2024, 21:12 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonEKSServicePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v7 (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:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
        "eks:UpdateClusterVersion",
        "ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/Name" : "eks-cluster-*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "route53:AssociateVPCWithHostedZone",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "logs:CreateLogGroup",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/eks/*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "logs:PutLogEvents",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/eks/*:*:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/eks.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonEKS",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "eks.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)