AWS managed policies for Amazon Q Apps - Amazon Q Business

AWS managed policies for Amazon Q Apps

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: QAppsServiceRolePolicy

Amazon Q Apps uses a QAppsServiceRolePolicy to enable an Amazon Q Apps to access CloudWatch resources and populate CloudWatch metrics. You can't attach QAppsServiceRolePolicy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows Amazon Q Apps to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Amazon Q Apps.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

  • cloudwatch – Allows Amazon Q Apps to publish metric data points to CloudWatch under the AWS/QApps namespace

{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "QAppsPutMetricDataPermission", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "cloudwatch:PutMetricData" ], "Resource": "*", "Condition": { "StringEquals": { "cloudwatch:namespace": "AWS/QApps" } } } ] }

Amazon Q Apps updates to AWS managed policies

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

Change Description Date

QAppsServiceRolePolicy - New policy

Amazon Q Apps added a new policy that grants permissions needed for Q Apps to publish metrics

Sep 30, 2024

Amazon Q Apps started tracking changes

Amazon Q Apps started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.

Sep 30, 2024