AWS managed policies for Amazon GameLift
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 so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.
Keep in mind that AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all AWS customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.
You cannot change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. If AWS updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. AWS is most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new AWS service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.
For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.
AWS managed policy: GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy
You can attach GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy to your IAM roles.
The policy grants permissions for compute actions in an Amazon GameLift container fleet. A container fleet is a set of hosting resources that Amazon GameLift manages for you. Amazon GameLift needs permissions to connect to the Amazon GameLift service and other AWS services on your behalf.
When creating a container fleet with Amazon GameLift, provide an IAM service role with the GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy managed policy attached. For instructions on creating the service role, see Set up an IAM service role for Amazon GameLift.
For more information, see GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy.
Permissions details
This policy includes the following permissions.
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cloudwatch– Allows Amazon GameLift to write game session logs to an Amazon CloudWatch Events log stream in your AWS account. -
cloudwatch– Allows Amazon GameLift to create an CloudWatch log group to organize game session data in the log stream. -
s3– Allows Amazon GameLift to write game session logs to an Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket in your AWS account. -
gamelift– Allows Amazon GameLift to retrieve an authentication token that allows a hosted game server to communicate with the Amazon GameLift service through your AWS account.
Amazon GameLift updates to AWS managed policies
View details about updates to AWS managed policies for Amazon GameLift since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the Amazon GameLift Release notes page.
| Change | Description | Date |
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GameLiftContainerFleetPolicy – New policy |
Amazon GameLift added new permissions to enable game server containers to run on Amazon GameLift managed fleets. |
November 12, 2024 |
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Amazon GameLift started tracking changes |
Amazon GameLift started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies. |
November 12, 2024 |
