cloudwatch:GenerateQuery
AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as cloudwatch:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.
Policies (any)
22
Allow (Action)
7
Allow (wildcard)
15
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
2023-11-26 in CloudWatchLogsFullAccess
Service prefix cloudwatch
Already present when the archive began
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: Amazon CloudWatch
Access level
ReadDescription
Grants permission to generate a Metrics Insights or Logs Insights query string from a natural language prompt
Allow (Action)
Allow (wildcard)
- AdministratorAccessvia *
- AmazonEC2FullAccessvia cloudwatch:*
- AmazonEC2RoleforDataPipelineRolevia cloudwatch:*
- AmazonElasticMapReduceforEC2Rolevia cloudwatch:*
- AmazonElasticMapReduceFullAccessvia cloudwatch:*
- AWSDataPipelineRolevia cloudwatch:*
- AWSElasticBeanstalkFullAccessvia cloudwatch:*
- AWSLambdaFullAccessvia cloudwatch:*
- AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
- CloudWatchFullAccessvia cloudwatch:*
- CloudWatchFullAccessV2via cloudwatch:*
- DataScientistvia cloudwatch:*
- SageMakerStudioAdminIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicyvia cloudwatch:*
- SageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicyvia cloudwatch:*
- SystemAdministratorvia cloudwatch:*
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