Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon GameLift

Amazon GameLift (service prefix: gamelift) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

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Actions defined by Amazon GameLift
Resource types defined by Amazon GameLift
Condition keys for Amazon GameLift

Actions defined by Amazon GameLift

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys	Dependent actions
AcceptMatch	Grants permission to register player acceptance or rejection of a proposed FlexMatch match	Write
ClaimGameServer	Grants permission to locate and reserve a game server to host a new game session	Write	gameServerGroup*
CreateAlias	Grants permission to define a new alias for a fleet	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	gamelift:TagResource
CreateBuild	Grants permission to create a new game build using files stored in an Amazon S3 bucket	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	gamelift:TagResource iam:PassRole s3:GetObject
CreateContainerFleet	Grants permission to create a new container fleet of computing resources to run your game servers	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2:DescribeRegions gamelift:TagResource iam:PassRole
CreateContainerGroupDefinition	Grants permission to create a new container group definition using images stored in an Amazon ECR repository	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	ecr:BatchGetImage ecr:DescribeImages ecr:GetAuthorizationToken ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer gamelift:TagResource
CreateFleet	Grants permission to create a new fleet of computing resources to run your game servers	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2:DescribeRegions gamelift:TagResource iam:PassRole
CreateFleetLocations	Grants permission to specify additional locations for a fleet	Write	containerFleet		ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2:DescribeRegions
CreateFleetLocations		Write	fleet
CreateGameServerGroup	Grants permission to create a new game server group, set up a corresponding Auto Scaling group, and launche instances to host game servers	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups autoscaling:PutLifecycleHook autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones ec2:DescribeSubnets events:PutRule events:PutTargets gamelift:TagResource iam:PassRole
CreateGameSession	Grants permission to start a new game session on a specified fleet	Write
CreateGameSessionQueue	Grants permission to set up a new queue for processing game session placement requests	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	gamelift:TagResource
CreateLocation	Grants permission to define a new location for a fleet	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	gamelift:TagResource
CreateMatchmakingConfiguration	Grants permission to create a new FlexMatch matchmaker	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	gamelift:TagResource
CreateMatchmakingRuleSet	Grants permission to create a new matchmaking rule set for FlexMatch	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	gamelift:TagResource
CreatePlayerSession	Grants permission to reserve an available game session slot for a player	Write
CreatePlayerSessions	Grants permission to reserve available game session slots for multiple players	Write
CreateScript	Grants permission to create a new Realtime Servers script	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	gamelift:TagResource iam:PassRole s3:GetObject
CreateVpcPeeringAuthorization	Grants permission to allow GameLift to create or delete a peering connection between a GameLift fleet VPC and a VPC on another AWS account	Write			ec2:AcceptVpcPeeringConnection ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress ec2:CreateRoute ec2:DeleteRoute ec2:DescribeRouteTables ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress
CreateVpcPeeringConnection	Grants permission to establish a peering connection between your GameLift fleet VPC and a VPC on another account	Write
DeleteAlias	Grants permission to delete an alias	Write	alias*
DeleteBuild	Grants permission to delete a game build	Write	build*
DeleteContainerFleet	Grants permission to delete a container fleet	Write	containerFleet*
DeleteContainerGroupDefinition	Grants permission to delete a container group definition	Write	containerGroupDefinition*
DeleteFleet	Grants permission to delete an empty fleet	Write	fleet*
DeleteFleetLocations	Grants permission to delete locations for a fleet	Write	containerFleet
DeleteFleetLocations	Grants permission to delete locations for a fleet	Write	fleet
DeleteGameServerGroup	Grants permission to permanently delete a game server group and terminate FleetIQ activity for the corresponding Auto Scaling group	Write	gameServerGroup*		autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups autoscaling:ExitStandby autoscaling:ResumeProcesses autoscaling:SetInstanceProtection autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup
DeleteGameSessionQueue	Grants permission to delete an existing game session queue	Write	gameSessionQueue*
DeleteLocation	Grants permission to delete a location	Write	location*
DeleteMatchmakingConfiguration	Grants permission to delete an existing FlexMatch matchmaker	Write	matchmakingConfiguration*
DeleteMatchmakingRuleSet	Grants permission to delete an existing FlexMatch matchmaking rule set	Write	matchmakingRuleSet*
DeleteScalingPolicy	Grants permission to delete a set of auto-scaling rules	Write	containerFleet
DeleteScalingPolicy	Grants permission to delete a set of auto-scaling rules	Write	fleet
DeleteScript	Grants permission to delete a Realtime Servers script	Write	script*
DeleteVpcPeeringAuthorization	Grants permission to cancel a VPC peering authorization	Write
DeleteVpcPeeringConnection	Grants permission to remove a peering connection between VPCs	Write
DeregisterCompute	Grants permission to deregister a compute against a fleet	Write	fleet*
DeregisterGameServer	Grants permission to remove a game server from a game server group	Write	gameServerGroup*
DescribeAlias	Grants permission to retrieve properties for an alias	Read	alias*
DescribeBuild	Grants permission to retrieve properties for a game build	Read	build*
DescribeCompute	Grants permission to retrieve information for a compute in a fleet	Read	containerFleet
DescribeCompute		Read	fleet
DescribeContainerFleet	Grants permission to retrieve the properties of an existing container fleet	Read	containerFleet*
DescribeContainerGroupDefinition	Grants permission to retrieve the properties of an existing container group definition	Read	containerGroupDefinition*
DescribeEC2InstanceLimits	Grants permission to retrieve the maximum allowed and current usage for EC2 instance types	Read
DescribeFleetAttributes	Grants permission to retrieve general properties, including status, for fleets	Read
DescribeFleetCapacity	Grants permission to retrieve the current capacity settings for managed fleets	Read
DescribeFleetDeployment	Grants permission to retrieve the properties of an existing fleet deployment	Read	containerFleet*
DescribeFleetEvents	Grants permission to retrieve entries from a fleet's event log	Read	containerFleet
DescribeFleetEvents		Read	fleet
DescribeFleetLocationAttributes	Grants permission to retrieve general properties, including statuses, for a fleet's locations	Read	containerFleet
DescribeFleetLocationAttributes		Read	fleet
DescribeFleetLocationCapacity	Grants permission to retrieve the current capacity setting for a fleet's location	Read	containerFleet
DescribeFleetLocationCapacity		Read	fleet
DescribeFleetLocationUtilization	Grants permission to retrieve utilization statistics for fleet's location	Read	fleet*
DescribeFleetPortSettings	Grants permission to retrieve the inbound connection permissions for a fleet	Read	fleet*
DescribeFleetUtilization	Grants permission to retrieve utilization statistics for fleets	Read
DescribeGameServer	Grants permission to retrieve properties for a game server	Read	gameServerGroup*
DescribeGameServerGroup	Grants permission to retrieve properties for a game server group	Read	gameServerGroup*
DescribeGameServerInstances	Grants permission to retrieve the status of EC2 instances in a game server group	Read	gameServerGroup*
DescribeGameSessionDetails	Grants permission to retrieve properties for game sessions in a fleet, including the protection policy	Read
DescribeGameSessionPlacement	Grants permission to retrieve details of a game session placement request	Read
DescribeGameSessionQueues	Grants permission to retrieve properties for game session queues	Read
DescribeGameSessions	Grants permission to retrieve properties for game sessions in a fleet	Read
DescribeInstances	Grants permission to retrieve information about instances in a managed fleet	Read	containerFleet
DescribeInstances		Read	fleet
DescribeMatchmaking	Grants permission to retrieve details of matchmaking tickets	Read
DescribeMatchmakingConfigurations	Grants permission to retrieve properties for FlexMatch matchmakers	Read
DescribeMatchmakingRuleSets	Grants permission to retrieve properties for FlexMatch matchmaking rule sets	Read
DescribePlayerSessions	Grants permission to retrieve properties for player sessions in a game session	Read
DescribeRuntimeConfiguration	Grants permission to retrieve the current runtime configuration for a fleet	Read	fleet*
DescribeScalingPolicies	Grants permission to retrieve all scaling policies that are applied to a fleet	Read	containerFleet
DescribeScalingPolicies		Read	fleet
DescribeScript	Grants permission to retrieve properties for a Realtime Servers script	Read	script*
DescribeVpcPeeringAuthorizations	Grants permission to retrieve valid VPC peering authorizations	Read
DescribeVpcPeeringConnections	Grants permission to retrieve details on active or pending VPC peering connections	Read
GetComputeAccess	Grants permission to retrieve credentials to remotely access a compute in a managed fleet	Read	containerFleet
GetComputeAccess		Read	fleet
GetComputeAuthToken	Grants permission to retrieve an authentication token that allows processes on a compute to send requests to the Amazon GameLift service	Read	containerFleet
GetComputeAuthToken		Read	fleet
GetGameSessionLogUrl	Grants permission to retrieve the location of stored logs for a game session	Read
GetInstanceAccess	Grants permission to request remote access to a specified fleet instance	Read	fleet*
ListAliases	Grants permission to retrieve all aliases that are defined in the current Region	List
ListBuilds	Grants permission to retrieve all game build in the current Region	List
ListCompute	Grants permission to retrieve all compute resources in the current Region	List	containerFleet
ListCompute		List	fleet
ListContainerFleets	Grants permission to retrieve the properties of all existing container fleets in the current Region	List
ListContainerGroupDefinitionVersions	Grants permission to retrieve the properties of all versions of an existing container group definition	List	containerGroupDefinition*
ListContainerGroupDefinitions	Grants permission to retrieve the properties of all existing container group definitions in the current Region	List
ListFleetDeployments	Grants permission to retrieve the properties of all existing fleet deployments in the current Region	List
ListFleets	Grants permission to retrieve a list of fleet IDs for all fleets in the current Region	List
ListGameServerGroups	Grants permission to retrieve all game server groups that are defined in the current Region	List
ListGameServers	Grants permission to retrieve all game servers that are currently running in a game server group	List	gameServerGroup*
ListLocations	Grants permission to retrieve all locations in this account	List
ListScripts	Grants permission to retrieve properties for all Realtime Servers scripts in the current region	List
ListTagsForResource	Grants permission to retrieve tags for GameLift resources	Read	alias
			build
			containerFleet
			containerGroupDefinition
			fleet
			gameServerGroup
			gameSessionQueue
			location
			matchmakingConfiguration
			matchmakingRuleSet
			script
PutScalingPolicy	Grants permission to create or update a fleet auto-scaling policy	Write	containerFleet
PutScalingPolicy		Write	fleet
RegisterCompute	Grants permission to register a compute against a fleet	Write	fleet*
RegisterGameServer	Grants permission to notify GameLift FleetIQ when a new game server is ready to host gameplay	Write	gameServerGroup*
RequestUploadCredentials	Grants permission to retrieve fresh upload credentials to use when uploading a new game build	Read	build*
ResolveAlias	Grants permission to retrieve the fleet ID associated with an alias	Read	alias*
ResumeGameServerGroup	Grants permission to reinstate suspended FleetIQ activity for a game server group	Write	gameServerGroup*
SearchGameSessions	Grants permission to retrieve game sessions that match a set of search criteria	Read
StartFleetActions	Grants permission to resume auto-scaling activity on a fleet after it was suspended with StopFleetActions()	Write	containerFleet
StartFleetActions		Write	fleet
StartGameSessionPlacement	Grants permission to send a game session placement request to a game session queue	Write	gameSessionQueue*
StartMatchBackfill	Grants permission to request FlexMatch matchmaking to fill available player slots in an existing game session	Write
StartMatchmaking	Grants permission to request FlexMatch matchmaking for one or a group of players and initiate game session placement	Write
StopFleetActions	Grants permission to suspend auto-scaling activity on a fleet	Write	containerFleet
StopFleetActions		Write	fleet
StopGameSessionPlacement	Grants permission to cancel a game session placement request that is in progress	Write
StopMatchmaking	Grants permission to cancel a matchmaking or match backfill request that is in progress	Write
SuspendGameServerGroup	Grants permission to temporarily stop FleetIQ activity for a game server group	Write	gameServerGroup*
TagResource	Grants permission to tag GameLift resources	Tagging	alias
			build
			containerFleet
			containerGroupDefinition
			fleet
			gameServerGroup
			gameSessionQueue
			location
			matchmakingConfiguration
			matchmakingRuleSet
			script
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Grants permission to untag GameLift resources	Tagging	alias
			build
			containerFleet
			containerGroupDefinition
			fleet
			gameServerGroup
			gameSessionQueue
			location
			matchmakingConfiguration
			matchmakingRuleSet
			script
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateAlias	Grants permission to update the properties of an existing alias	Write	alias*
UpdateBuild	Grants permission to update an existing build's metadata	Write	build*
UpdateContainerFleet	Grants permission to update an existing container fleet	Write	containerFleet*
UpdateContainerGroupDefinition	Grants permission to update the properties of an existing container group definition	Write	containerGroupDefinition*		ecr:BatchGetImage ecr:DescribeImages ecr:GetAuthorizationToken ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer
UpdateFleetAttributes	Grants permission to update the general properties of an existing fleet	Write	fleet*
UpdateFleetCapacity	Grants permission to adjust a managed fleet's capacity settings	Write	containerFleet
UpdateFleetCapacity		Write	fleet
UpdateFleetPortSettings	Grants permission to adjust a fleet's port settings	Write	fleet*
UpdateGameServer	Grants permission to change game server properties, health status, or utilization status	Write	gameServerGroup*
UpdateGameServerGroup	Grants permission to update properties for game server group, including allowed instance types	Write	gameServerGroup*		iam:PassRole
UpdateGameSession	Grants permission to update the properties of an existing game session	Write
UpdateGameSessionQueue	Grants permission to update properties of an existing game session queue	Write	gameSessionQueue*
UpdateMatchmakingConfiguration	Grants permission to update properties of an existing FlexMatch matchmaking configuration	Write	matchmakingConfiguration*
UpdateRuntimeConfiguration	Grants permission to update how server processes are configured on instances in an existing fleet	Write	fleet*
UpdateScript	Grants permission to update the metadata and content of an existing Realtime Servers script	Write	script*		iam:PassRole s3:GetObject
ValidateMatchmakingRuleSet	Grants permission to validate the syntax of a FlexMatch matchmaking rule set	Read

Resource types defined by Amazon GameLift

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
alias	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}::alias/${AliasId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
build	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:build/${BuildId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
containerGroupDefinition	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:containergroupdefinition/${Name}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
containerFleet	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:containerfleet/${FleetId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
fleet	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:fleet/${FleetId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
gameServerGroup	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:gameservergroup/${GameServerGroupName}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
gameSessionQueue	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:gamesessionqueue/${GameSessionQueueName}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
location	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:location/${LocationId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
matchmakingConfiguration	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:matchmakingconfiguration/${MatchmakingConfigurationName}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
matchmakingRuleSet	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:matchmakingruleset/${MatchmakingRuleSetName}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
script	`arn:${Partition}:gamelift:${Region}:${Account}:script/${ScriptId}`	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for Amazon GameLift

Amazon GameLift defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys	Description	Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags that are passed in the request	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the tag keys that are passed in the request	ArrayOfString

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