# AmazonVPCReadOnlyAccess
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**Description**: Provides read only access to Amazon VPC via the AWS Management Console.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: February 06, 2015, 18:41 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 17:58 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonVPCReadOnlyAccess`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v12 (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" : "AmazonVPCReadOnlyAccess",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeCarrierGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeClassicLinkInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeCustomerGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",
        "ec2:DescribeEgressOnlyInternetGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeFlowLogs",
        "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeLocalGatewayRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeLocalGatewayRouteTableVpcAssociations",
        "ec2:DescribeMovingAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkAcls",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfacePermissions",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribePrefixLists",
        "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupReferences",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupRules",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupVpcAssociations",
        "ec2:DescribeStaleSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeTags",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointConnectionNotifications",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointConnections",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServiceConfigurations",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServicePermissions",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServices",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeVpnConnections",
        "ec2:DescribeVpnGateways",
        "ec2:GetSecurityGroupsForVpc"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)