config:DescribeConfigRules
AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as config:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.
Policies (any)
28
Allow (Action)
11
Allow (wildcard)
17
Deny (Action)
0
NotAction
0
572 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service). A wildcard also covers actions AWS adds later, without a new policy version. Index regenerated on every deploy.
First seen
From archive historyThis action
Already present when the archive began, on 2019-02-10
Earliest appearance in any AWS managed policy tracked here, not an official AWS launch date. Matched case-insensitively, as IAM does.
Action reference
SAR-style (unofficial)Service: AWS Config
Access level
ListDescription
Grants permission to return details about your AWS Config rules
Allow (Action)
- AWSAuditManagerServiceRolePolicy
- AWSCodeStarServiceRole
- AWSControlTowerAccountServiceRolePolicy
- AWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy
- AWSSecurityHubServiceRolePolicy
- AWSServiceRolePolicyForBackupReports
- AWSWellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningServiceRolePolicy
- AssuranceServiceRolePolicy
- ConfigConformsServiceRolePolicy
- FMSServiceRolePolicy
- SupportUser
Allow (wildcard)
- AdministratorAccessvia *
- AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicyvia config:Describe*
- AIOpsAssistantPolicyvia config:Describe*
- AWS_Config_Rolevia config:Describe*
- AWS_ConfigRolevia config:Describe*
- AWSConfigRolevia config:Describe*
- AWSConfigRulesExecutionRolevia config:Describe*
- AWSConfigServiceRolePolicyvia config:Describe*
- AWSConfigUserAccessvia config:Describe*
- AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
- AWSResilienceHubV2AssessmentExecutionPolicyvia config:Describe*
- CloudWatchOmniAWSIntegrationPolicyvia config:Describe*
- ReadOnlyAccessvia config:Describe*
- SecurityAuditvia config:Describe*
- SystemAdministratorvia config:*
- ViewOnlyAccessvia config:Describe*
- WellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningvia config:Describe*
Deny (Action)
NotAction
Thanks to Ian McKay for iam-dataset (MIT), structured data derived from the AWS Service Authorization Reference. Not maintained by AWS and not guaranteed current. IAMTrail's managed policy archive is separate.
Definitions bundle regenerated on every deploy