# DatabaseAdministrator
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**Description**: Grants full access permissions to AWS services and actions required to set up and configure AWS database services.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Job function policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 10, 2016, 17:25 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:02 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/job-function/DatabaseAdministrator`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v5 (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" : [
        "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
        "cloudwatch:Describe*",
        "cloudwatch:DisableAlarmActions",
        "cloudwatch:EnableAlarmActions",
        "cloudwatch:Get*",
        "cloudwatch:List*",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
        "datapipeline:ActivatePipeline",
        "datapipeline:CreatePipeline",
        "datapipeline:DeletePipeline",
        "datapipeline:DescribeObjects",
        "datapipeline:DescribePipelines",
        "datapipeline:GetPipelineDefinition",
        "datapipeline:ListPipelines",
        "datapipeline:PutPipelineDefinition",
        "datapipeline:QueryObjects",
        "dynamodb:*",
        "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
        "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "elasticache:*",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "iam:GetRole",
        "kms:ListKeys",
        "lambda:CreateEventSourceMapping",
        "lambda:CreateFunction",
        "lambda:DeleteEventSourceMapping",
        "lambda:DeleteFunction",
        "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
        "lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",
        "lambda:ListFunctions",
        "logs:DescribeLogGroups",
        "logs:DescribeLogStreams",
        "logs:FilterLogEvents",
        "logs:GetLogEvents",
        "logs:Create*",
        "logs:PutLogEvents",
        "logs:PutMetricFilter",
        "pi:CreatePerformanceAnalysisReport",
        "pi:DeletePerformanceAnalysisReport",
        "pi:DescribeDimensionKeys",
        "pi:GetDimensionKeyDetails",
        "pi:GetPerformanceAnalysisReport",
        "pi:GetResourceMetadata",
        "pi:GetResourceMetrics",
        "pi:ListAvailableResourceDimensions",
        "pi:ListAvailableResourceMetrics",
        "pi:ListPerformanceAnalysisReports",
        "pi:ListTagsForResource",
        "pi:TagResource",
        "pi:UntagResource",
        "rds:*",
        "redshift:*",
        "s3:CreateBucket",
        "sns:CreateTopic",
        "sns:DeleteTopic",
        "sns:Get*",
        "sns:List*",
        "sns:SetTopicAttributes",
        "sns:Subscribe",
        "sns:Unsubscribe"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "s3:AbortMultipartUpload",
        "s3:DeleteObject*",
        "s3:Get*",
        "s3:List*",
        "s3:PutAccelerateConfiguration",
        "s3:PutBucketTagging",
        "s3:PutBucketVersioning",
        "s3:PutBucketWebsite",
        "s3:PutLifecycleConfiguration",
        "s3:PutReplicationConfiguration",
        "s3:PutObject*",
        "s3:Replicate*",
        "s3:RestoreObject"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/rds-monitoring-role",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/rdbms-lambda-access",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/lambda_exec_role",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/lambda-dynamodb-*",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/lambda-vpc-execution-role",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/DataPipelineDefaultRole",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/DataPipelineDefaultResourceRole"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)