# AmazonSSMAutomationRole
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**Description**: Provides permissions for EC2 Automation service to execute activities defined within Automation documents

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: December 05, 2016, 22:09 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** March 20, 2026, 17:42 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonSSMAutomationRole`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v9 (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" : [
        "lambda:InvokeFunction"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:Automation*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:CreateImage",
        "ec2:CopyImage",
        "ec2:DeregisterImage",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DeleteTags",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "cloudformation:CreateStack",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
        "cloudformation:UpdateStack",
        "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
        "cloudformation:TagResource",
        "cloudformation:UntagResource"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssm:*"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "sns:Publish"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:sns:*:*:Automation*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:*:ssm:*:*:session/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)