Using identity-based policies for CodeGuru Reviewer - Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer
Policy best practicesPermissions required to use the CodeGuru Reviewer consoleAWS managed (predefined) policies for CodeGuru ReviewerPolicy updatesCustomer managed policy examples

Using identity-based policies for CodeGuru Reviewer

By default, users and IAM roles don't have permission to create or modify Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer resources. They also can't perform tasks using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS API. An administrator must create IAM policies that grant users and roles permission to perform specific API operations on the specified resources they need. The administrator must then attach those policies to the roles or groups that require those permissions. To learn how to attach policies to an IAM role or group, see Adding and removing IAM identity permissions in the IAM User Guide.

To learn how to create an IAM identity-based policy using these example JSON policy documents, see Creating IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.

Policy best practices

Identity-based policies determine whether someone can create, access, or delete CodeGuru Reviewer resources in your account. These actions can incur costs for your AWS account. When you create or edit identity-based policies, follow these guidelines and recommendations:

  • Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions – To get started granting permissions to your users and workloads, use the AWS managed policies that grant permissions for many common use cases. They are available in your AWS account. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining AWS customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases. For more information, see AWS managed policies or AWS managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.

  • Apply least-privilege permissions – When you set permissions with IAM policies, grant only the permissions required to perform a task. You do this by defining the actions that can be taken on specific resources under specific conditions, also known as least-privilege permissions. For more information about using IAM to apply permissions, see Policies and permissions in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

  • Use conditions in IAM policies to further restrict access – You can add a condition to your policies to limit access to actions and resources. For example, you can write a policy condition to specify that all requests must be sent using SSL. You can also use conditions to grant access to service actions if they are used through a specific AWS service, such as AWS CloudFormation. For more information, see IAM JSON policy elements: Condition in the IAM User Guide.

  • Use IAM Access Analyzer to validate your IAM policies to ensure secure and functional permissions – IAM Access Analyzer validates new and existing policies so that the policies adhere to the IAM policy language (JSON) and IAM best practices. IAM Access Analyzer provides more than 100 policy checks and actionable recommendations to help you author secure and functional policies. For more information, see Validate policies with IAM Access Analyzer in the IAM User Guide.

  • Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) – If you have a scenario that requires IAM users or a root user in your AWS account, turn on MFA for additional security. To require MFA when API operations are called, add MFA conditions to your policies. For more information, see Secure API access with MFA in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about best practices in IAM, see Security best practices in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

Permissions required to use the CodeGuru Reviewer console

A user who uses the CodeGuru Reviewer console must have a minimum set of permissions that allows the user to describe other AWS resources for the AWS account. You must have permissions from the following services:

  • CodeGuru Reviewer

  • AWS CodeCommit (if your source code is in a CodeCommit repository)

  • CodeConnections (if your source code is in a repository managed by CodeConnections, such as Bitbucket)

  • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

If your source code is in a GitHub repository, you must have an OAuth token to connect to it. Associated GitHub repositories are not managed by CodeConnections. For more information, see Git automation with OAuth tokens on the GitHub website.

If you create an IAM policy that is more restrictive than the minimum required permissions, the console won't function as intended.

The following shows an example of a permissions policy that allows a user to get information about a repository association only in the us-east-2 Region for account 123456789012 for any repository association with a universally unique identifier (UUID) that starts with 12345.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "codeguru-reviewer:DescribeRepositoryAssociation",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:codeguru-reviewer:us-east-2:123456789012:association:12345*"      
    }
  ]
}

AWS managed (predefined) policies for CodeGuru Reviewer

AWS addresses many common use cases by providing standalone IAM policies that are created and administered by AWS. These AWS managed policies grant necessary permissions for common use cases so you can avoid having to investigate what permissions are needed. For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

To create and manage CodeGuru Reviewer service roles, you must also attach the AWS managed policy named IAMFullAccess.

You can also create your own custom IAM policies to allow permissions for CodeGuru Reviewer actions and resources. You can attach these custom policies to the roles or groups that require those permissions.

The following AWS managed policies, which you can attach to users in your account, are specific to CodeGuru Reviewer.

AmazonCodeGuruReviewerFullAccess

AmazonCodeGuruReviewerFullAccess – Provides full access to CodeGuru Reviewer, including permissions to tag repository associations and to create, update, and delete code reviews and repository associations. It also grants permission to related resources in other services that integrate with CodeGuru Reviewer, such as Amazon CloudWatch, CodeConnections, and CodeCommit. Apply this only to administrative-level users to who you want to grant full control over CodeGuru Reviewer repository associations, code reviews, and related resources in your AWS account, including the ability to delete code reviews and repository associations.

The AmazonCodeGuruReviewerFullAccess policy contains the following statement.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AmazonCodeGuruReviewerFullAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codeguru-reviewer:*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AmazonCodeGuruReviewerSLRCreation",
            "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/codeguru-reviewer.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonCodeGuruReviewer",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": "codeguru-reviewer.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AmazonCodeGuruReviewerSLRDeletion",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
                "iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/codeguru-reviewer.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonCodeGuruReviewer"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "codecommitAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codecommit:ListRepositories"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "codecommitTagManagement",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codecommit:TagResource",
                "codecommit:UntagResource"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
                    "aws:TagKeys": "codeguru-reviewer"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CodeConnectTagManagement",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codestar-connections:TagResource",
                "codestar-connections:UntagResource",
                "codestar-connections:ListTagsForResource"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
                    "aws:TagKeys": "codeguru-reviewer"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CodeConnectManagedRules",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codestar-connections:UseConnection",
                "codestar-connections:ListConnections",
                "codestar-connections:PassConnection"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
                    "codestar-connections:ProviderAction": [
                        "ListRepositories",
                        "ListOwners"
                    ]
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CloudWatchEventsManagedRules",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "events:PutRule",
                "events:PutTargets",
                "events:DeleteRule",
                "events:RemoveTargets"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "events:ManagedBy": "codeguru-reviewer.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

AmazonCodeGuruReviewerReadOnlyAccess

AmazonCodeGuruReviewerReadOnlyAccess – Grants read-only access to CodeGuru Reviewer and related resources in other AWS services. Apply this policy to users who you want to grant the ability to view code reviews, but not to create or make any changes to them.

The AmazonCodeGuruReviewerReadOnlyAccess policy contains the following statement.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AmazonCodeGuruReviewerReadOnlyAccess",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codeguru-reviewer:List*",
                "codeguru-reviewer:Describe*",
                "codeguru-reviewer:Get*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

AmazonCodeGuruReviewerServiceRolePolicy

AmazonCodeGuruReviewerServiceRolePolicy – Grants permission to related resources in CodeCommit, CodeConnections, Amazon S3, and CloudWatch that are required to create repository associations.

For CodeCommit repository associations, the CodeCommit and CloudWatch permissions in this policy are required. For associations with repositories that are managed by an AWS CodeStar connection, such as Bitbucket, the CodeConnections permissions are required. For code reviews with security analysis, the Amazon S3 permissions are required.

When you create your first association with a CodeCommit, Amazon S3, or CodeConnections managed repository, CodeGuru Reviewer adds the AmazonCodeGuruReviewerServiceRolePolicy policy to your AWS account. This policy grants CodeGuru Reviewer access to CodeCommit repositories, CodeConnections resources in your account that have an aws:ResourceTag/codeguru-reviewer tag. It also grants access to Amazon S3 buckets that have a prefix that begins with codeguru-reviewer-. When you associate a CodeCommit repository, CodeGuru Reviewer adds this tag to the repository. When you associate an CodeConnections managed repository, CodeGuru Reviewer adds this tag to the CodeConnections resource, if it doesn't already exist.

The AmazonCodeGuruReviewerServiceRolePolicy policy contains the following statement.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AccessCodeGuruReviewerEnabledRepositories",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codecommit:GetRepository",
                "codecommit:GetBranch",
                "codecommit:DescribePullRequestEvents",
                "codecommit:GetCommentsForPullRequest",
                "codecommit:GetDifferences",
                "codecommit:GetPullRequest",
                "codecommit:ListPullRequests",
                "codecommit:PostCommentForPullRequest",
                "codecommit:GitPull",
                "codecommit:UntagResource"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringLike": {
                    "aws:ResourceTag/codeguru-reviewer": "enabled"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AccessCodeGuruReviewerEnabledConnections",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "codestar-connections:UseConnection"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
                    "codestar-connections:ProviderAction": [
                        "ListBranches",
                        "GetBranch",
                        "ListRepositories",
                        "ListOwners",
                        "ListPullRequests",
                        "GetPullRequest",
                        "ListPullRequestComments",
                        "ListPullRequestCommits",
                        "ListCommitFiles",
                        "ListBranchCommits",
                        "CreatePullRequestDiffComment",
                        "GitPull"
                    ]
                },
                "Null": {
                    "aws:ResourceTag/codeguru-reviewer": "false"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "CloudWatchEventsResourceCleanup",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "events:DeleteRule",
                "events:RemoveTargets"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "events:ManagedBy": "codeguru-reviewer.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "Sid": "AccessCodeGuruReviewerCreatedS3Bucket",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [    
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:CreateBucket",
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:PutBucketPolicy",
                "s3:PutLifecycleConfiguration"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::codeguru-reviewer-*",
                "arn:aws:s3:::codeguru-reviewer-*/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

CodeGuru Reviewer updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for CodeGuru Reviewer since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed on the CodeGuru Reviewer Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer User Guide document history.

Change Description Date

AmazonCodeGuruReviewerServiceRolePolicy – Update to an existing policy

CodeGuru Reviewer added new permissions to allow access to the CreateBucket, ListBucket, PutBucketPolicy, and PutLifecycleConfiguration actions on an Amazon S3 bucket resource.

 April 28, 2021

CodeGuru Reviewer started tracking changes

CodeGuru Reviewer started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies.

 July 2, 2020

Customer managed policy examples

You can create your own custom IAM policies to allow permissions for CodeGuru Reviewer actions and resources. You can attach these custom policies to the roles or groups that require those permissions. You can also create your own custom IAM policies for integration between CodeGuru Reviewer and other AWS services.

The following example IAM policies grant permissions for various CodeGuru Reviewer actions. Use them to limit CodeGuru Reviewer access for your users and roles. These policies control the ability to perform actions with the CodeGuru Reviewer console, API, AWS SDKs, or the AWS CLI.

Note

All examples use the US East (Ohio) Region (us-east-2) and contain fictitious account IDs.

Examples

Example 1: Allow a user to see all recommendations created in an associated repository

The following example policy grants permissions for the AWS user with account ID 123456789012 to see a list of all recommendations in their AWS account and Region in the repository association with ID association-uuid. 

{
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
   "Statement": [
      {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": [
            "codeguru-reviewer:ListRecommendations"
         ],
         "Resource": "arn:aws:codeguru-reviewer:us-east-2:123456789012:association:association-uuid"
      }
   ]
}

Example 2: Allow a user to view code reviews in an associated repository in a single Region

The following shows an example of a permissions policy that allows a user with account ID 123456789012 to get information about code reviews in Region us-east-2 in an associated repository with ID association-uuid.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "codeguru-reviewer:DescribeCodeReview",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:codeguru-reviewer:us-east-2:123456789012:association:association-uuid"      
    }
  ]
}

Example 3: Allow a user to perform CodeGuru Reviewer operations in a single Region

The following permissions policy uses a wildcard character ("codeguru-reviewer:*") to allow users to perform all CodeGuru Reviewer actions in the us-east-2 Region and not from other AWS Regions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
    {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "codeguru-reviewer:*",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:codeguru-reviewer:us-east-2:123456789012:*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "aws:RequestedRegion": "us-east-2"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Example 4: Allow read-only access to CodeGuru Reviewer operations for a user connecting from a specified IP address range

You can create a policy that only allows users CodeGuru Reviewer read-only access if their IP address is within a certain IP address range. The following example grants read-only CodeGuru Reviewer permissions to users whose IP addresses are within the specified IP address block of 203.0.113.0/24.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
          "codeguru-reviewer:List*",
          "codeguru-reviewer:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "IpAddress": {
          "aws:SourceIp": "203.0.113.0/24"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}