AWS managed policies for Macie

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.

Amazon Macie provides several AWS managed policies: the AmazonMacieFullAccess policy, the AmazonMacieReadOnlyAccess policy, and the AmazonMacieServiceRolePolicy policy.

AWS managed policy: AmazonMacieFullAccess

You can attach the AmazonMacieFullAccess policy to your IAM entities.

This policy grants full administrative permissions that allow an IAM identity (principal) to create the Amazon Macie service-linked role and perform all read and write actions for Amazon Macie. The permissions include mutating functions such as create, update, and delete. If this policy is attached to a principal, the principal can create, retrieve, and otherwise access all Macie resources, data, and settings for their account.

This policy must be attached to a principal before the principal can enable Macie for their account—a principal must be allowed to create the Macie service-linked role in order to enable Macie for their account.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions:

{
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
   "Statement": [
      {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": [
            "macie2:*"
         ],
         "Resource": "*"
      },
      {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
         "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/macie.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForAmazonMacie",
         "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
               "iam:AWSServiceName": "macie.amazonaws.com"
            }
         }
      },
      {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": "pricing:GetProducts",
         "Resource": "*"
      }
   ]
}

AWS managed policy: AmazonMacieReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the AmazonMacieReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM entities.

This policy grants read-only permissions that allow an IAM identity (principal) to perform all read actions for Amazon Macie. The permissions don't include mutating functions such as create, update, or delete. If this policy is attached to a principal, the principal can retrieve but not otherwise access all Macie resources, data, and settings for their account.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions:

macie2 – Allows principals to perform all read actions for Amazon Macie.

{
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
   "Statement": [
      {
         "Effect": "Allow",
         "Action": [
            "macie2:Describe*",
            "macie2:Get*",
            "macie2:List*",
            "macie2:BatchGetCustomDataIdentifiers",
            "macie2:SearchResources"
         ],
         "Resource": "*"
      }
   ]
}

AWS managed policy: AmazonMacieServiceRolePolicy

You can't attach the AmazonMacieServiceRolePolicy policy to your IAM entities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows Amazon Macie to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Using service-linked roles for Macie.

Macie updates to AWS managed policies

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