AWS IAM Service Reference

Explore IAM actions, resource types, and condition keys for AWS services. Find the exact permissions you need for your IAM policies.

5 services

Compute

Amazon EC2

ec2:*

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

16 actions8 resources17 condition keys

Storage

Amazon S3

s3:*

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

15 actions4 resources15 condition keys

Management & Governance

AWS CloudFormation

cloudformation:*

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

15 actions4 resources9 condition keys

Security, Identity, & Compliance

AWS IAM

iam:*

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely.

20 actions5 resources8 condition keys

Compute

AWS Lambda

lambda:*

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

15 actions4 resources12 condition keys