cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric
Literal appearances in AWS managed IAM policies. Statements that use wildcards (for example s3:*) are not counted here. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.
Policies (any)
14
Allow (Action)
14
Deny (Action)
0
NotAction
0
Index generated 4/7/2026, 3:29:24 AM. 559 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service).
Action reference
SAR-style (unofficial)Service: Amazon CloudWatch
Access level
ReadDescription
Grants permission to describe all alarms configured on the specified metric, currently owned by the user's account
Allow (Action)
- AWSAuditManagerServiceRolePolicy
- AWSConfigServiceRolePolicy
- AWSSecurityHubServiceRolePolicy
- AWS_ConfigRole
- AmazonCloudWatchEvidentlyFullAccess
- AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
- AmazonDynamoDBFullAccesswithDataPipeline
- AmazonDynamoDBReadOnlyAccess
- AmazonElasticFileSystemFullAccess
- AmazonElasticFileSystemReadOnlyAccess
- AmazonGrafanaCloudWatchAccess
- AmazonLexFullAccess
- ServiceQuotasFullAccess
- ServiceQuotasReadOnlyAccess
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 generated 4/7/2026, 3:29:24 AM