# ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole
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**Description**: Permissions to allow the AWS Server Migration Service to create and update relevant AWS resources into the customer's AWS account for launching migrated servers and applications.

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

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: Service role policy 
+ **Creation time**: November 26, 2018, 19:53 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** October 15, 2020, 17:29 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ServerMigrationServiceLaunchRole`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v4 (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" : [
        "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id" : "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "ec2:CreateTags",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:DisassociateIamInstanceProfile",
        "ec2:AssociateIamInstanceProfile",
        "ec2:ReplaceIamInstanceProfileAssociation"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id" : "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "ec2.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "applicationinsights:Describe*",
        "applicationinsights:List*",
        "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
        "cloudformation:DescribeStacks"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "applicationinsights:CreateApplication",
        "applicationinsights:CreateComponent",
        "applicationinsights:UpdateApplication",
        "applicationinsights:DeleteApplication",
        "applicationinsights:UpdateComponentConfiguration",
        "applicationinsights:DeleteComponent"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:applicationinsights:*:*:application/resource-group/sms-app-*"
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "resource-groups:CreateGroup",
        "resource-groups:GetGroup",
        "resource-groups:UpdateGroup",
        "resource-groups:DeleteGroup"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:resource-groups:*:*:group/sms-app-*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "aws:ResourceTag/aws:cloudformation:stack-id" : "arn:aws:cloudformation:*:*:stack/sms-app-*/*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-insights.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationInsights"
      ],
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "application-insights.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## 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)