# CloudWatchInternetMonitorServiceRolePolicy
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**Description**: Allows Internet Monitor to access EC2, Workspaces, and CloudFront resources, and other required services on your behalf.

`CloudWatchInternetMonitorServiceRolePolicy` 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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This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows the service to perform actions on your behalf. You cannot attach this policy to your users, groups, or roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service-linked role policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 27, 2022, 17:46 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** July 20, 2023, 04:46 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/CloudWatchInternetMonitorServiceRolePolicy`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v2 (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" : [
        "cloudfront:GetDistribution",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
        "workspaces:DescribeWorkspaceDirectories"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "logs:CreateLogGroup",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/internet-monitor/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "logs:CreateLogStream",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
        "logs:PutLogEvents"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/internet-monitor/*:log-stream:*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "cloudwatch:PutMetricData",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "cloudwatch:namespace" : "AWS/InternetMonitor"
        }
      },
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [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)