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ROSAKarpenterControllerPolicy - AWS Managed Policy

ROSAKarpenterControllerPolicy

Description: Provides permissions for the ROSA Karpenter controller to dynamically provision and manage EC2 instances for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) hosted control plane clusters. This includes EC2 fleet and instance lifecycle management, instance pricing queries, KMS operations for EBS volume encryption with customer-managed keys, and IAM instance profile management.

ROSAKarpenterControllerPolicy is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

You can attach ROSAKarpenterControllerPolicy to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

  • Type: Service role policy

  • Creation time: July 27, 2026, 16:42 UTC

  • Edited time: July 27, 2026, 16:42 UTC

  • ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/ROSAKarpenterControllerPolicy

Policy version

Policy version: v1 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request.

JSON policy document

{ "Version" : "2012-10-17", "Statement" : [ { "Sid" : "ReadPermissions", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones", "ec2:DescribeCapacityReservations", "ec2:DescribeImages", "ec2:DescribeInstances", "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings", "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes", "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates", "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups", "ec2:DescribeSnapshots", "ec2:DescribeSpotPriceHistory", "ec2:DescribeSubnets", "ec2:DescribeVpcs" ], "Resource" : "*" }, { "Sid" : "PricingReadActions", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "pricing:GetProducts" ], "Resource" : "*" }, { "Sid" : "DescribeKMSKeysForEBSVolumeEncryption", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : "kms:DescribeKey", "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*", "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat" : "true" }, "StringLike" : { "kms:ViaService" : "ec2.*.amazonaws.com" } } }, { "Sid" : "CryptoOpsForEBSVolumeEncryption", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "kms:Decrypt", "kms:ReEncryptFrom", "kms:ReEncryptTo", "kms:GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext" ], "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*", "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat" : "true" }, "StringLike" : { "kms:ViaService" : "ec2.*.amazonaws.com" }, "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : { "kms:EncryptionContextKeys" : [ "aws:ebs:id" ] } } }, { "Sid" : "CreateGrantForEBSVolumeEncryption", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : "kms:CreateGrant", "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*", "Condition" : { "Bool" : { "kms:GrantIsForAWSResource" : true }, "StringLike" : { "kms:ViaService" : "ec2.*.amazonaws.com" }, "StringEquals" : { "kms:GrantConstraintType" : "EncryptionContextSubset" }, "ForAllValues:StringEquals" : { "kms:GrantOperations" : [ "Decrypt", "GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext", "ReEncryptFrom", "ReEncryptTo" ], "kms:EncryptionContextKeys" : [ "aws:ebs:id" ] } } }, { "Sid" : "CreateEC2Resources", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:RunInstances", "ec2:CreateFleet" ], "Resource" : [ "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:subnet/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:capacity-reservation/*" ] }, { "Sid" : "CreateEC2ResourcesWithApprovedAMIs", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:RunInstances", "ec2:CreateFleet" ], "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*::image/*", "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "ec2:Owner" : [ "531415883065", "251351625822", "210686502322" ] } } }, { "Sid" : "CreateEC2ResourcesWithTags", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:RunInstances", "ec2:CreateFleet", "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate" ], "Resource" : [ "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:fleet/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:spot-instances-request/*" ], "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "aws:RequestTag/red-hat-managed" : "true" } } }, { "Sid" : "CreateEC2ResourcesLaunchTemplate", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:RunInstances", "ec2:CreateFleet" ], "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*", "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed" : "true" } } }, { "Sid" : "CreateTagsOnResources", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:CreateTags" ], "Resource" : [ "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:fleet/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:spot-instances-request/*" ], "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "ec2:CreateAction" : [ "RunInstances", "CreateFleet", "CreateLaunchTemplate" ], "aws:RequestTag/red-hat-managed" : "true" } } }, { "Sid" : "ManageTagsOnManagedResources", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:CreateTags" ], "Resource" : "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*", "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed" : "true" } } }, { "Sid" : "TerminateManagedResources", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "ec2:TerminateInstances", "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate" ], "Resource" : [ "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*", "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:launch-template/*" ], "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "aws:ResourceTag/red-hat-managed" : "true" } } }, { "Sid" : "PassInstanceRole", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "iam:PassRole" ], "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*-ROSA-Worker-Role", "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "iam:PassedToService" : [ "ec2.amazonaws.com" ] } } }, { "Sid" : "ManageInstanceProfiles", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile", "iam:RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile", "iam:DeleteInstanceProfile" ], "Resource" : [ "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/rosa-service-managed-*" ] }, { "Sid" : "CreateInstanceProfiles", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "iam:CreateInstanceProfile", "iam:TagInstanceProfile" ], "Resource" : [ "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/rosa-service-managed-*" ], "Condition" : { "StringEquals" : { "aws:RequestTag/red-hat-managed" : "true" } } }, { "Sid" : "ReadInstanceProfiles", "Effect" : "Allow", "Action" : [ "iam:GetInstanceProfile", "iam:ListInstanceProfiles" ], "Resource" : "*" } ] }

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