Billing and Cost Management actions policies Managed policies Policy updates

Using identity-based policies (IAM policies) for AWS Cost Management

Note

The following AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions have reached the end of standard support on July 2023:

aws-portal namespace
purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders
purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders

If you're using AWS Organizations, you can use the bulk policy migrator scripts to update polices from your payer account. You can also use the old to granular action mapping reference to verify the IAM actions that need to be added.

For more information, see the Changes to AWS Billing, AWS Cost Management, and Account Consoles Permission blog.

If you have an AWS account, or are a part of an AWS Organizations created on or after March 6, 2023, 11:00 AM (PDT), the fine-grained actions are already in effect in your organization.

This topic provides examples of identity-based policies that demonstrate how an account administrator can attach permissions policies to IAM identities (roles and groups) and thereby grant permissions to perform operations on Billing and Cost Management resources.

For a full discussion of AWS accounts and users, see What Is IAM? in the IAM User Guide.

For information on how you can update customer managed policies, see Editing customer managed policies (console) in the IAM User Guide.

Topics

Billing and Cost Management actions policies
Managed policies
AWS Cost Management updates to AWS managed policies

Billing and Cost Management actions policies

This table summarizes the permissions that allow or deny users access to your billing information and tools. For examples of policies that use these permissions, see AWS Cost Management policy examples.

For a list of actions policies for the Billing console, see Billing actions policies in the Billing user guide.

Permission name	Description
`aws-portal:ViewBilling`	Allow or deny users permission to view the Billing and Cost Management console pages. For an example policy, see Allow IAM users to view your billing information in the Billing User Guide.
`aws-portal:ViewUsage`	Allow or deny users permission to view AWS usage Reports. To allow users to view usage reports, you must allow both `ViewUsage` and `ViewBilling`. For an example policy, see Allow IAM users to access the reports console page in the Billing User Guide.
`aws-portal:ModifyBilling`	Allow or deny users permission to modify the following Billing and Cost Management console pages: Budgets Consolidated Billing Billing preferences Credits Tax settings Payment methods Purchase orders Cost Allocation Tags To allow users to modify these console pages, you must allow both `ModifyBilling` and `ViewBilling`. For an example policy, see Allow users to modify billing information.
`aws-portal:ViewAccount`	Allow or deny users permission to view the following Billing and Cost Management console pages: Billing Dashboard Account Settings
`aws-portal:ModifyAccount`	Allow or deny users permission to modify Account Settings. To allow users to modify account settings, you must allow both `ModifyAccount` and `ViewAccount`. For an example of a policy that explicitly denies a user access to the Account Settings console page, see Deny access to account settings, but allow full access to all other billing and usage information.
`budgets:ViewBudget`	Allow or deny users permission to view Budgets. To allow users to view budgets, you must also allow `ViewBilling`.
`budgets:ModifyBudget`	Allow or deny users permission to modify Budgets. To allow users to view and modify budgets, you must also allow `ViewBilling`.
`ce:GetPreferences`	Allow or deny users permissions to view the Cost Explorer preferences page. For an example policy, see View and update the Cost Explorer preferences page.
`ce:UpdatePreferences`	Allow or deny users permissions to update the Cost Explorer preferences page. For an example policy, see View and update the Cost Explorer preferences page.
`ce:DescribeReport`	Allow or deny users permissions to view the Cost Explorer reports page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete using the Cost Explorer reports page.
`ce:CreateReport`	Allow or deny users permissions to create reports using the Cost Explorer reports page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete using the Cost Explorer reports page.
`ce:UpdateReport`	Allow or deny users permissions to update using the Cost Explorer reports page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete using the Cost Explorer reports page.
`ce:DeleteReport`	Allow or deny users permissions to delete reports using the Cost Explorer reports page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete using the Cost Explorer reports page.
`ce:DescribeNotificationSubscription`	Allow or deny users permissions to view Cost Explorer reservation expiration alerts in the reservation overview page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete reservation and Savings Plans alerts.
`ce:CreateNotificationSubscription`	Allow or deny users permissions to create Cost Explorer reservation expiration alerts in the reservation overview page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete reservation and Savings Plans alerts.
`ce:UpdateNotificationSubscription`	Allow or deny users permissions to update Cost Explorer reservation expiration alerts in the reservation overview page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete reservation and Savings Plans alerts.
`ce:DeleteNotificationSubscription`	Allow or deny users permissions to delete Cost Explorer reservation expiration alerts in the reservation overview page. For an example policy, see View, create, update, and delete reservation and Savings Plans alerts.
`ce:CreateCostCategoryDefinition`	Allow or deny users permissions to create cost categories. For an example policy, see View and manage cost categories in the Billing User Guide. You can add resource tags to monitors during `Create`. In order to create monitors with resource tags, you need the `ce:TagResource` permission.
`ce:DeleteCostCategoryDefinition`	Allow or deny users permissions to delete cost categories. For an example policy, see View and manage cost categories in the Billing User Guide.
`ce:DescribeCostCategoryDefinition`	Allow or deny users permissions to view cost categories. For an example policy, see View and manage cost categories in the Billing User Guide.
`ce:ListCostCategoryDefinitions`	Allow or deny users permissions to list cost categories. For an example policy, see View and manage cost categories in the Billing User Guide.
`ce:ListTagsForResource`	Allow or deny users permissions to list all resource tags for a given resource. For a list of supported resources, see ResourceTag in the AWS Billing and Cost Management API Reference.
`ce:UpdateCostCategoryDefinition`	Allow or deny users permissions to update cost categories. For an example policy, see View and manage cost categories in the Billing User Guide.
`ce:CreateAnomalyMonitor`	Allow or deny users permissions to create a single AWS Cost Anomaly Detection monitor. You can add resource tags to monitors during `Create`. In order to create monitors with resource tags, you need the `ce:TagResource` permission.
`ce:GetAnomalyMonitors`	Allow or deny users permissions to view all AWS Cost Anomaly Detection monitors.
`ce:UpdateAnomalyMonitor`	Allow or deny users permissions to update AWS Cost Anomaly Detection monitors.
`ce:DeleteAnomalyMonitor`	Allow or deny users permissions to delete AWS Cost Anomaly Detection monitors.
`ce:CreateAnomalySubscription`	Allow or deny users permissions to create a single subscription for AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. You can add resource tags to subscriptions during `Create`. In order to create subscriptions with resource tags, you need the `ce:TagResource` permission.
`ce:GetAnomalySubscriptions`	Allow or deny users permissions to view all subscriptions for AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.
`ce:UpdateAnomalySubscription`	Allow or deny users permissions to update AWS Cost Anomaly Detection subscriptions.
`ce:DeleteAnomalySubscription`	Allow or deny users permissions to delete AWS Cost Anomaly Detection subscriptions.
`ce:GetAnomalies`	Allow or deny users permissions to view all anomalies in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.
`ce:ProvideAnomalyFeedback`	Allow or deny users permissions to provide feedback on a detected AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.
`ce:TagResource`	Allow or deny users permissions to add resource tag key-value pairs to a resource. For a list of supported resources, see ResourceTag in the AWS Billing and Cost Management API Reference.
`ce:UntagResource`	Allow or deny users permissions to delete resource tags from a resource. For a list of supported resources, see ResourceTag in the AWS Billing and Cost Management API Reference.

Managed policies

Note

The following AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions have reached the end of standard support on July 2023:

aws-portal namespace
purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders
purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders

For more information, see the Changes to AWS Billing, AWS Cost Management, and Account Consoles Permission blog.

If you have an AWS account, or are a part of an AWS Organizations created on or after March 6, 2023, 11:00 AM (PDT), the fine-grained actions are already in effect in your organization.

Managed policies are standalone identity-based policies that you can attach to multiple users, groups, and roles in your AWS account. You can use AWS managed policies to control access in Billing and Cost Management.

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. AWS managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases. AWS managed policies make it easier for you to assign appropriate permissions to users, groups, and roles than if you had to write the policies yourself.

You can't change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. AWS occasionally updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy. When this occurs, the update affects all principal entities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to.

Billing and Cost Management provides several AWS managed policies for common use cases.

Topics

Allows full access to AWS Budgets including budgets actions
Allows read only access to AWS Budgets
Allows permission to control AWS resources
Allows Cost Optimization Hub to call services required to make the service work
Allows read-only access to Cost Optimization Hub
Allows admin access to Cost Optimization Hub
Allows split cost allocation data to call services required to make the service work
Allows Data Exports to access other AWS services

Allows full access to AWS Budgets including budgets actions

Managed policy name: AWSBudgetsActionsWithAWSResourceControlAccess

This managed policy is focused on the user, ensuring that you have the proper permissions to grant permission to AWS Budgets to run the defined actions. This policy provides full access to AWS Budgets, including budgets actions, to retrieve the status of your policies and run AWS resources using the AWS Management Console.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "budgets:*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "aws-portal:ViewBilling"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:PassRole"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:PassedToService": "budgets.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "aws-portal:ModifyBilling",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "iam:ListGroups",
                "iam:ListPolicies",
                "iam:ListRoles",
                "iam:ListUsers",
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
                "organizations:ListPolicies",
                "organizations:ListRoots",
                "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
                "sns:ListTopics"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Allows read only access to AWS Budgets

Managed policy name: AWSBudgetsReadOnlyAccess

This managed policy allows read only access to AWS Budgets through the AWS Management Console. The policy can be attached to your users, groups, and roles.


{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid": "AWSBudgetsReadOnlyAccess",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "aws-portal:ViewBilling",
        "budgets:ViewBudget",
        "budgets:Describe*"
        "budgets:ListTagsForResource"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}

Allows permission to control AWS resources

Managed policy name: AWSBudgetsActions_RolePolicyForResourceAdministrationWithSSM

This managed policy is focused on specific actions that AWS Budgets takes on your behalf when completing a specific action. This policy gives permission to control AWS resources. For example, starts and stops Amazon EC2 or Amazon RDS instances by running AWS Systems Manager (SSM) scripts.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
                "ec2:StartInstances",
                "ec2:StopInstances",
                "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
                "rds:StartDBInstance",
                "rds:StopDBInstance"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
                    "aws:CalledVia": [
                        "ssm.amazonaws.com"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ssm:StartAutomationExecution"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-StartEC2Instance:*",
                "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-StopEC2Instance:*",
                "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-StartRdsInstance:*",
                "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:automation-definition/AWS-StopRdsInstance:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Allows Cost Optimization Hub to call services required to make the service work

Managed policy name: CostOptimizationHubServiceRolePolicy

Allows Cost Optimization Hub to retrieve organization information and collect optimization-related data and metadata.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AwsOrgsAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action":  [
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
                "organizations:ListParents",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit"
            ],
            "Resource":  [
                "*" 
            ]
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AwsOrgsScopedAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action":  [
                "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": { 
                "StringLikeIfExists": {
                    "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [ "cost-optimization-hub.bcm.amazonaws.com" ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CostExplorerAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ce:ListCostAllocationTags",
                "ce:GetCostAndUsage"
            ],
            "Resource":  [
                "*" 
            ]
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Service-linked roles for Cost Optimization Hub.

Allows read-only access to Cost Optimization Hub

Managed policy name: CostOptimizationHubReadOnlyAccess

This managed policy provides read-only access to Cost Optimization Hub.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "CostOptimizationHubReadOnlyAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListEnrollmentStatuses",
                "cost-optimization-hub:GetPreferences",
                "cost-optimization-hub:GetRecommendation",
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListRecommendations",
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListRecommendationSummaries"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Allows admin access to Cost Optimization Hub

Managed policy name: CostOptimizationHubAdminAccess

This managed policy provides admin access to Cost Optimization Hub.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "CostOptimizationHubAdminAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListEnrollmentStatuses",
                "cost-optimization-hub:UpdateEnrollmentStatus",
                "cost-optimization-hub:GetPreferences",
                "cost-optimization-hub:UpdatePreferences",
                "cost-optimization-hub:GetRecommendation",
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListRecommendations",
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListRecommendationSummaries",
                "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowCreationOfServiceLinkedRoleForCostOptimizationHub",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/cost-optimization-hub.bcm.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCostOptimizationHub"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": "cost-optimization-hub.bcm.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AllowAWSServiceAccessForCostOptimizationHub",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
                        "cost-optimization-hub.bcm.amazonaws.com"
                    ]
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Allows split cost allocation data to call services required to make the service work

Managed policy name: SplitCostAllocationDataServiceRolePolicy

Allows split cost allocation data to retrieve AWS Organizations information, if applicable, and collect telemetry data for the split cost allocation data services that the customer has opted in to.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AwsOrganizationsAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "organizations:ListAccounts",
                "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
                "organizations:ListParents"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AmazonManagedServiceForPrometheusAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "aps:ListWorkspaces",
                "aps:QueryMetrics"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Service-linked roles for split cost allocation data.

Allows Data Exports to access other AWS services

Managed policy name: AWSBCMDataExportsServiceRolePolicy

Allows Data Exports to access other AWS services such as Cost Optimization Hub on your behalf.


{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "CostOptimizationRecommendationAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action":  [
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListEnrollmentStatuses",
                "cost-optimization-hub:ListRecommendations"
            ],
            "Resource": "*" 
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Service-linked roles for Data Exports.

AWS Cost Management updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for AWS Cost Management since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the AWS Cost Management Document history page.

Change	Description	Date
Update to existing policy CostOptimizationHubServiceRolePolicy	We updated the policy to add the `organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators` and `ce:GetCostAndUsage` actions.	07/05/2024
Update to existing policy AWSBudgetsReadOnlyAccess	We updated the policy to add the `budgets:ListTagsForResource` action.	06/17/2024
Addition of a new policy AWSBCMDataExportsServiceRolePolicy	Data Exports added a new policy to be used with service-linked roles, which enables access to other AWS services such as Cost Optimization Hub.	06/10/2024
Addition of a new policy SplitCostAllocationDataServiceRolePolicy	Split cost allocation data added a new policy to be used with service-linked roles, which enables access to AWS services and resources used or managed by split cost allocation data.	04/16/2024
Update to existing policy AWSBudgetsActions_RolePolicyForResourceAdministrationWithSSM	We updated the policy with scoped down permissions. The `ssm:StartAutomationExecution` action is only allowed for specific resources used by Budget actions.	12/14/2023
Update to existing policies CostOptimizationHubReadOnlyAccess CostOptimizationHubAdminAccess	Cost Optimization Hub updated the following two managed policies: `CostOptimizationHubReadOnlyAccess`: Fixed typo in "GetRecommendation"; removed permissions covered by the SLR policy. `CostOptimizationHubAdminAccess`: Fixed typo in "GetRecommendation"; removed permissions covered by the SLR policy; added permissions to enable service access and to create the SLR, so that the policy provides all necessary permissions to opt in and use Cost Optimization Hub.	12/14/2023
Addition of a new policy CostOptimizationHubServiceRolePolicy	Cost Optimization Hub added a new policy to be used with service-linked roles, which enables access to AWS services and resources used or managed by Cost Optimization Hub.	11/02/2023
AWS Cost Management started tracking changes	AWS Cost Management started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies	11/02/2023

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