Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Config

AWS Config (service prefix: config) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

Learn how to configure this service.
View a list of the API operations available for this service.
Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

Actions defined by AWS Config

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys	Dependent actions
AssociateResourceTypes	Grants permission to add all specified resource types to the RecordingGroup of configuration recorder and includes those resource types when recording	Write	ConfigurationRecorder*
BatchGetAggregateResourceConfig	Grants permission to return the current configuration items for resources that are present in your AWS Config aggregator	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
BatchGetResourceConfig	Grants permission to return the current configuration for one or more requested resources	Read
DeleteAggregationAuthorization	Grants permission to delete the authorization granted to the specified configuration aggregator account in a specified region	Write	AggregationAuthorization*
DeleteConfigRule	Grants permission to delete the specified AWS Config rule and all of its evaluation results	Write	ConfigRule*
DeleteConfigurationAggregator	Grants permission to delete the specified configuration aggregator and the aggregated data associated with the aggregator	Write	ConfigurationAggregator*
DeleteConfigurationRecorder	Grants permission to delete the customer managed configuration recorder	Write	ConfigurationRecorder*
DeleteConformancePack	Grants permission to delete the specified conformance pack and all the AWS Config rules and all evaluation results within that conformance pack	Write	ConformancePack*
DeleteDeliveryChannel	Grants permission to delete the delivery channel	Write
DeleteEvaluationResults	Grants permission to delete the evaluation results for the specified Config rule	Write	ConfigRule*
DeleteOrganizationConfigRule	Grants permission to delete the specified organization config rule and all of its evaluation results from all member accounts in that organization	Write	OrganizationConfigRule*
DeleteOrganizationConformancePack	Grants permission to delete the specified organization conformance pack and all of its evaluation results from all member accounts in that organization	Write	OrganizationConformancePack*
DeletePendingAggregationRequest	Grants permission to delete pending authorization requests for a specified aggregator account in a specified region	Write
DeleteRemediationConfiguration	Grants permission to delete the remediation configuration	Write	RemediationConfiguration*
DeleteRemediationExceptions	Grants permission to delete one or more remediation exceptions for specific resource keys for a specific AWS Config Rule	Write
DeleteResourceConfig	Grants permission to record the configuration state for a custom resource that has been deleted	Write
DeleteRetentionConfiguration	Grants permission to delete the retention configuration	Write
DeleteServiceLinkedConfigurationRecorder	Grants permission to delete the service-linked configuration recorder	Write	ConfigurationRecorder*
DeleteServiceLinkedConfigurationRecorder		Write		config:ConfigurationRecorderServicePrincipal
DeleteStoredQuery	Grants permission to delete the stored query for an AWS account in an AWS Region	Write	StoredQuery*
DeliverConfigSnapshot	Grants permission to schedule delivery of a configuration snapshot to the Amazon S3 bucket in the specified delivery channel	Read
DescribeAggregateComplianceByConfigRules	Grants permission to return a list of compliant and noncompliant rules with the number of resources for compliant and noncompliant rules	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
DescribeAggregateComplianceByConformancePacks	Grants permission to return a list of compliant and noncompliant conformance packs along with count of compliant, non-compliant and total rules within each conformance pack	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
DescribeAggregationAuthorizations	Grants permission to return a list of authorizations granted to various aggregator accounts and regions	List
DescribeComplianceByConfigRule	Grants permission to indicate whether the specified AWS Config rules are compliant	Read
DescribeComplianceByResource	Grants permission to indicate whether the specified AWS resources are compliant	Read
DescribeConfigRuleEvaluationStatus	Grants permission to return status information for each of your AWS managed Config rules	Read
DescribeConfigRules	Grants permission to return details about your AWS Config rules	List
DescribeConfigurationAggregatorSourcesStatus	Grants permission to return status information for sources within an aggregator	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
DescribeConfigurationAggregators	Grants permission to return the details of one or more configuration aggregators	List
DescribeConfigurationRecorderStatus	Grants permission to return the current status of the specified configuration recorder	Read	ConfigurationRecorder*
DescribeConfigurationRecorderStatus		Read		config:ConfigurationRecorderServicePrincipal
DescribeConfigurationRecorders	Grants permission to return the names of one or more specified configuration recorders	Read	ConfigurationRecorder*
DescribeConfigurationRecorders		Read		config:ConfigurationRecorderServicePrincipal
DescribeConformancePackCompliance	Grants permission to return compliance information for each rule in that conformance pack	Read	ConformancePack*
DescribeConformancePackStatus	Grants permission to provide one or more conformance packs deployment status	Read
DescribeConformancePacks	Grants permission to return a list of one or more conformance packs	List
DescribeDeliveryChannelStatus	Grants permission to return the current status of the specified delivery channel	Read
DescribeDeliveryChannels	Grants permission to return details about the specified delivery channel	List
DescribeOrganizationConfigRuleStatuses	Grants permission to provide organization config rule deployment status for an organization	Read
DescribeOrganizationConfigRules	Grants permission to return a list of organization config rules	List
DescribeOrganizationConformancePackStatuses	Grants permission to provide organization conformance pack deployment status for an organization	Read
DescribeOrganizationConformancePacks	Grants permission to return a list of organization conformance packs	List
DescribePendingAggregationRequests	Grants permission to return a list of all pending aggregation requests	List
DescribeRemediationConfigurations	Grants permission to return the details of one or more remediation configurations	List	RemediationConfiguration*
DescribeRemediationExceptions	Grants permission to return the details of one or more remediation exceptions	List
DescribeRemediationExecutionStatus	Grants permission to provide a detailed view of a Remediation Execution for a set of resources including state, timestamps and any error messages for steps that have failed	Read	RemediationConfiguration*
DescribeRetentionConfigurations	Grants permission to return the details of one or more retention configurations	List
DisassociateResourceTypes	Grants permission to remove all specified resource types from the RecordingGroup of configuration recorder and excludes these resource types when recording	Write	ConfigurationRecorder*
GetAggregateComplianceDetailsByConfigRule	Grants permission to return the evaluation results for the specified AWS Config rule for a specific resource in a rule	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
GetAggregateConfigRuleComplianceSummary	Grants permission to return the number of compliant and noncompliant rules for one or more accounts and regions in an aggregator	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
GetAggregateConformancePackComplianceSummary	Grants permission to return the number of compliant and noncompliant conformance packs for one or more accounts and regions in an aggregator	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
GetAggregateDiscoveredResourceCounts	Grants permission to return the resource counts across accounts and regions that are present in your AWS Config aggregator	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
GetAggregateResourceConfig	Grants permission to return configuration item that is aggregated for your specific resource in a specific source account and region	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
GetComplianceDetailsByConfigRule	Grants permission to return the evaluation results for the specified AWS Config rule	Read	ConfigRule*
GetComplianceDetailsByResource	Grants permission to return the evaluation results for the specified AWS resource	Read
GetComplianceSummaryByConfigRule	Grants permission to return the number of AWS Config rules that are compliant and noncompliant, up to a maximum of 25 for each	Read
GetComplianceSummaryByResourceType	Grants permission to return the number of resources that are compliant and the number that are noncompliant	Read
GetConformancePackComplianceDetails	Grants permission to return compliance details of a conformance pack for all AWS resources that are monitered by conformance pack	Read	ConformancePack*
GetConformancePackComplianceSummary	Grants permission to provide compliance summary for one or more conformance packs	Read	ConformancePack*
GetCustomRulePolicy	Grants permission to return the policy definition containing the logic for your AWS Config Custom Policy rule	Read	ConfigRule*
GetDiscoveredResourceCounts	Grants permission to return the resource types, the number of each resource type, and the total number of resources that AWS Config is recording in this region for your AWS account	Read
GetOrganizationConfigRuleDetailedStatus	Grants permission to return detailed status for each member account within an organization for a given organization config rule	Read	OrganizationConfigRule*
GetOrganizationConformancePackDetailedStatus	Grants permission to return detailed status for each member account within an organization for a given organization conformance pack	Read	OrganizationConformancePack*
GetOrganizationCustomRulePolicy	Grants permission to return the policy definition containing the logic for your organization AWS Config Custom Policy rule	Read	OrganizationConfigRule*
GetResourceConfigHistory	Grants permission to return a list of configuration items for the specified resource	Read
GetResourceEvaluationSummary	Grants permission to return the summary of resource evaluations for a specific resource evaluation ID	Read
GetStoredQuery	Grants permission to return the details of a specific stored query	Read	StoredQuery*
ListAggregateDiscoveredResources	Grants permission to accept a resource type and returns a list of resource identifiers that are aggregated for a specific resource type across accounts and regions	List	ConfigurationAggregator*
ListConfigurationRecorders	Grants permission to list the configuration recorder summaries for an AWS account in an AWS Region	List
ListConformancePackComplianceScores	Grants permission to return the percentage of compliant rule-resource combinations in a conformance pack compared to the number of total possible rule-resource combinations	List
ListDiscoveredResources	Grants permission to accept a resource type and returns a list of resource identifiers for the resources of that type	List
ListResourceEvaluations	Grants permission to list the resource evaluation summaries for an AWS account in an AWS Region	List
ListStoredQueries	Grants permission to list the stored queries for an AWS account in an AWS Region	List
ListTagsForResource	Grants permission to list the tags for AWS Config resource	Read	AggregationAuthorization
			ConfigRule
			ConfigurationAggregator
			ConfigurationRecorder
			ConformancePack
			OrganizationConfigRule
			OrganizationConformancePack
			StoredQuery
PutAggregationAuthorization	Grants permission to authorize the aggregator account and region to collect data from the source account and region	Write	AggregationAuthorization*
PutAggregationAuthorization		Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
PutConfigRule	Grants permission to add or update an AWS Config rule for evaluating whether your AWS resources comply with your desired configurations	Write	ConfigRule*
PutConfigRule		Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
PutConfigurationAggregator	Grants permission to create and update the configuration aggregator with the selected source accounts and regions	Write	ConfigurationAggregator*		iam:PassRole organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators
PutConfigurationAggregator		Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
PutConfigurationRecorder	Grants permission to create or update a customer managed configuration recorder to record the selected resource configurations	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	iam:PassRole
PutConformancePack	Grants permission to create or update a conformance pack	Write	ConformancePack*		iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole iam:PassRole s3:GetObject s3:ListBucket ssm:GetDocument
PutDeliveryChannel	Grants permission to create a delivery channel object to deliver configuration information to an Amazon S3 bucket and Amazon SNS topic	Write
PutEvaluations	Grants permission to be used by an AWS Lambda function to deliver evaluation results to AWS Config	Write
PutExternalEvaluation	Grants permission to deliver evaluation result to AWS Config	Write	ConfigRule*
PutOrganizationConfigRule	Grants permission to add or update organization config rule for your entire organization evaluating whether your AWS resources comply with your desired configurations	Write	OrganizationConfigRule*		iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole iam:PassRole organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators
PutOrganizationConformancePack	Grants permission to add or update organization conformance pack for your entire organization evaluating whether your AWS resources comply with your desired configurations	Write	OrganizationConformancePack*		iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole iam:PassRole organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators s3:GetObject
PutRemediationConfigurations	Grants permission to add or update the remediation configuration with a specific AWS Config rule with the selected target or action	Write	RemediationConfiguration*		iam:PassRole
PutRemediationExceptions	Grants permission to add or update remediation exceptions for specific resources for a specific AWS Config rule	Write
PutResourceConfig	Grants permission to record the configuration state for the resource provided in the request	Write
PutRetentionConfiguration	Grants permission to create and update the retention configuration with details about retention period (number of days) that AWS Config stores your historical information	Write
PutServiceLinkedConfigurationRecorder	Grants permission to create a new service-linked configuration recorder to record the resource configurations in scope for the linked service	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys config:ConfigurationRecorderServicePrincipal	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole iam:PassRole
PutStoredQuery	Grants permission to save a new query or updates an existing saved query	Write	StoredQuery*
PutStoredQuery		Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
SelectAggregateResourceConfig	Grants permission to accept a structured query language (SQL) SELECT command and an aggregator to query configuration state of AWS resources across multiple accounts and regions, performs the corresponding search, and returns resource configurations matching the properties	Read	ConfigurationAggregator*
SelectResourceConfig	Grants permission to accept a structured query language (SQL) SELECT command, performs the corresponding search, and returns resource configurations matching the properties	Read
StartConfigRulesEvaluation	Grants permission to evaluate your resources against the specified Config rules	Write	ConfigRule*
StartConfigurationRecorder	Grants permission to the customer managed configuration recorder to start recording configurations of the AWS resources you have selected to record in your AWS account	Write	ConfigurationRecorder*
StartRemediationExecution	Grants permission to run an on-demand remediation for the specified AWS Config rules against the last known remediation configuration	Write			iam:PassRole
StartResourceEvaluation	Grants permission to evaluate your resource details against the AWS Config rules in your account	Write			cloudformation:DescribeType
StopConfigurationRecorder	Grants permission to the customer managed configuration recorder to stop recording configurations of the AWS resources you have selected to record in your AWS account	Write	ConfigurationRecorder*
TagResource	Grants permission to associate the specified tags to a resource with the specified resourceArn	Tagging	AggregationAuthorization
			ConfigRule
			ConfigurationAggregator
			ConfigurationRecorder
			ConformancePack
			OrganizationConfigRule
			OrganizationConformancePack
			StoredQuery
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Grants permission to delete specified tags from a resource	Tagging	AggregationAuthorization
			ConfigRule
			ConfigurationAggregator
			ConfigurationRecorder
			ConformancePack
			OrganizationConfigRule
			OrganizationConformancePack
			StoredQuery
				aws:TagKeys

Resource types defined by AWS Config

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
AggregationAuthorization	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:aggregation-authorization/${AggregatorAccount}/${AggregatorRegion}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
ConfigurationAggregator	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:config-aggregator/${AggregatorId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
ConfigRule	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:config-rule/${ConfigRuleId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
ConformancePack	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:conformance-pack/${ConformancePackName}/${ConformancePackId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
OrganizationConfigRule	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:organization-config-rule/${OrganizationConfigRuleId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
OrganizationConformancePack	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:organization-conformance-pack/${OrganizationConformancePackId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
RemediationConfiguration	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:remediation-configuration/${RemediationConfigurationId}`
StoredQuery	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:stored-query/${StoredQueryName}/${StoredQueryId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
ConfigurationRecorder	`arn:${Partition}:config:${Region}:${Account}:configuration-recorder/${RecorderName}/${RecorderId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for AWS Config

AWS Config defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys	Description	Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the allowed set of values for each of the tags	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by tag-value associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the presence of mandatory tags in the request	ArrayOfString
config:ConfigurationRecorderServicePrincipal	Filters access by service principal of the configuration recorder	String

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