SystemAdministrator

Description: Grants full access permissions necessary for resources required for application and development operations.

SystemAdministrator is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

You can attach SystemAdministrator to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

Policy version

Policy version: v6 (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

{
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Action" : [
        "acm:Describe*",
        "acm:Get*",
        "acm:List*",
        "acm:Request*",
        "acm:Resend*",
        "autoscaling:*",
        "cloudtrail:DescribeTrails",
        "cloudtrail:GetTrailStatus",
        "cloudtrail:ListPublicKeys",
        "cloudtrail:ListTags",
        "cloudtrail:LookupEvents",
        "cloudtrail:StartLogging",
        "cloudtrail:StopLogging",
        "cloudwatch:*",
        "codecommit:BatchGetRepositories",
        "codecommit:CreateBranch",
        "codecommit:CreateRepository",
        "codecommit:Get*",
        "codecommit:GitPull",
        "codecommit:GitPush",
        "codecommit:List*",
        "codecommit:Put*",
        "codecommit:Test*",
        "codecommit:Update*",
        "codedeploy:*",
        "codepipeline:*",
        "config:*",
        "ds:*",
        "ec2:Allocate*",
        "ec2:AssignPrivateIpAddresses*",
        "ec2:Associate*",
        "ec2:Allocate*",
        "ec2:AttachInternetGateway",
        "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:AttachVpnGateway",
        "ec2:Bundle*",
        "ec2:Cancel*",
        "ec2:Copy*",
        "ec2:CreateCustomerGateway",
        "ec2:CreateDhcpOptions",
        "ec2:CreateFlowLogs",
        "ec2:CreateImage",
        "ec2:CreateInstanceExportTask",
        "ec2:CreateInternetGateway",
        "ec2:CreateKeyPair",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplateVersion",
        "ec2:CreateNatGateway",
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:CreatePlacementGroup",
        "ec2:CreateReservedInstancesListing",
        "ec2:CreateRoute",
        "ec2:CreateRouteTable",
        "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:CreateSnapshot",
        "ec2:CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription",
        "ec2:CreateSubnet",
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:CreateVolume",
        "ec2:CreateVpc",
        "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
        "ec2:CreateVpnConnection",
        "ec2:CreateVpnConnectionRoute",
        "ec2:CreateVpnGateway",
        "ec2:DeleteFlowLogs",
        "ec2:DeleteKeyPair",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
        "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplateVersions",
        "ec2:DeleteNatGateway",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeletePlacementGroup",
        "ec2:DeleteSnapshot",
        "ec2:DeleteSpotDatafeedSubscription",
        "ec2:DeleteSubnet",
        "ec2:DeleteTags",
        "ec2:DeleteVpc",
        "ec2:DeleteVpcEndpoints",
        "ec2:DeleteVpnConnection",
        "ec2:DeleteVpnConnectionRoute",
        "ec2:DeleteVpnGateway",
        "ec2:DeregisterImage",
        "ec2:Describe*",
        "ec2:DetachInternetGateway",
        "ec2:DetachNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DetachVpnGateway",
        "ec2:DisableVgwRoutePropagation",
        "ec2:DisableVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport",
        "ec2:DisassociateAddress",
        "ec2:DisassociateRouteTable",
        "ec2:EnableVgwRoutePropagation",
        "ec2:EnableVolumeIO",
        "ec2:EnableVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport",
        "ec2:GetConsoleOutput",
        "ec2:GetHostReservationPurchasePreview",
        "ec2:GetLaunchTemplateData",
        "ec2:GetPasswordData",
        "ec2:Import*",
        "ec2:Modify*",
        "ec2:MonitorInstances",
        "ec2:MoveAddressToVpc",
        "ec2:Purchase*",
        "ec2:RegisterImage",
        "ec2:Release*",
        "ec2:Replace*",
        "ec2:ReportInstanceStatus",
        "ec2:Request*",
        "ec2:Reset*",
        "ec2:RestoreAddressToClassic",
        "ec2:RunScheduledInstances",
        "ec2:UnassignPrivateIpAddresses",
        "ec2:UnmonitorInstances",
        "ec2:UpdateSecurityGroupRuleDescriptionsEgress",
        "ec2:UpdateSecurityGroupRuleDescriptionsIngress",
        "elasticloadbalancing:*",
        "events:*",
        "iam:GetAccount*",
        "iam:GetContextKeys*",
        "iam:GetCredentialReport",
        "iam:ListAccountAliases",
        "iam:ListGroups",
        "iam:ListOpenIDConnectProviders",
        "iam:ListPolicies",
        "iam:ListPoliciesGrantingServiceAccess",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "iam:ListSAMLProviders",
        "iam:ListServerCertificates",
        "iam:Simulate*",
        "iam:UpdateServerCertificate",
        "iam:UpdateSigningCertificate",
        "kinesis:ListStreams",
        "kinesis:PutRecord",
        "kms:CreateAlias",
        "kms:CreateKey",
        "kms:DeleteAlias",
        "kms:Describe*",
        "kms:GenerateRandom",
        "kms:Get*",
        "kms:List*",
        "kms:Encrypt",
        "kms:ReEncrypt*",
        "lambda:Create*",
        "lambda:Delete*",
        "lambda:Get*",
        "lambda:InvokeFunction",
        "lambda:List*",
        "lambda:PublishVersion",
        "lambda:Update*",
        "logs:*",
        "rds:Describe*",
        "rds:ListTagsForResource",
        "route53:*",
        "route53domains:*",
        "ses:*",
        "sns:*",
        "sqs:*",
        "trustedadvisor:*"
      ],
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Action" : [
        "ec2:AcceptVpcPeeringConnection",
        "ec2:AttachClassicLinkVpc",
        "ec2:AttachVolume",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:CreateVpcPeeringConnection",
        "ec2:DeleteCustomerGateway",
        "ec2:DeleteDhcpOptions",
        "ec2:DeleteInternetGateway",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkAcl*",
        "ec2:DeleteRoute",
        "ec2:DeleteRouteTable",
        "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
        "ec2:DeleteVolume",
        "ec2:DeleteVpcPeeringConnection",
        "ec2:DetachClassicLinkVpc",
        "ec2:DetachVolume",
        "ec2:DisableVpcClassicLink",
        "ec2:EnableVpcClassicLink",
        "ec2:GetConsoleScreenshot",
        "ec2:RebootInstances",
        "ec2:RejectVpcPeeringConnection",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Action" : "s3:*",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Action" : [
        "iam:GetAccessKeyLastUsed",
        "iam:GetGroup*",
        "iam:GetInstanceProfile",
        "iam:GetLoginProfile",
        "iam:GetOpenIDConnectProvider",
        "iam:GetPolicy*",
        "iam:GetRole*",
        "iam:GetSAMLProvider",
        "iam:GetSSHPublicKey",
        "iam:GetServerCertificate",
        "iam:GetServiceLastAccessed*",
        "iam:GetUser*",
        "iam:ListAccessKeys",
        "iam:ListAttached*",
        "iam:ListEntitiesForPolicy",
        "iam:ListGroupPolicies",
        "iam:ListGroupsForUser",
        "iam:ListInstanceProfiles*",
        "iam:ListMFADevices",
        "iam:ListPolicyVersions",
        "iam:ListRolePolicies",
        "iam:ListSSHPublicKeys",
        "iam:ListSigningCertificates",
        "iam:ListUserPolicies",
        "iam:Upload*"
      ],
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Action" : [
        "iam:GetRole",
        "iam:ListRoles",
        "iam:PassRole"
      ],
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/rds-monitoring-role",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/ec2-sysadmin-*",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/ecr-sysadmin-*",
        "arn:aws:iam::*:role/lambda-sysadmin-*"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "Version" : "2012-10-17"
}

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