# AmazonEMRServicePolicyForSessions
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**Description**: Provides permissions to provision and manage Network Load Balancers, VPC endpoint services, and security groups required for Amazon EMR Spark Connect interactive sessions on EMR on EC2 clusters.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: June 22, 2026, 19:57 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** June 22, 2026, 19:57 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEMRServicePolicyForSessions`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v1 (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" : "NLBProvisioning",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:listener/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/for-use-with-amazon-emr-managed-policies" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "NLBManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancer",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteTargetGroup",
        "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets",
        "elasticloadbalancing:CreateListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteListener",
        "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags",
        "elasticloadbalancing:SetSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:targetgroup/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:listener/*",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/for-use-with-amazon-emr-managed-policies" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "NLBDescribes",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
        "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "VPCEndpointServiceProvisioning",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpointServiceConfiguration"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint-service/*",
        "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/net/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/for-use-with-amazon-emr-managed-policies" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "VPCEndpointServiceManagement",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DeleteVpcEndpointServiceConfigurations",
        "ec2:ModifyVpcEndpointServicePermissions"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint-service/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/for-use-with-amazon-emr-managed-policies" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "VPCEndpointServiceDescribes",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServiceConfigurations",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServicePermissions"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "TagOnCreateEndpointServiceResources",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint-service/*"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "ec2:CreateAction" : [
            "CreateVpcEndpointServiceConfiguration"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "CreateServiceLinkedRoleForELB",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForElasticLoadBalancing",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "SecurityGroupProvisioning",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "aws:RequestTag/for-use-with-amazon-emr-managed-policies" : "true"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "SecurityGroupCreateInVpc",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc/*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)