backup:describeBackupAccessPoint
AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as backup:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.
Policies (any)
13
Allow (Action)
1
Allow (wildcard)
12
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
2025-11-20 in AWSBackupGuardDutyRolePolicyForScans
Service prefix backup
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: AWS Backup
Access level
ReadDescription
Grants permission to return information about the specified backup access point
Resource types
- backupAccessPoint*
Allow (Action)
Allow (wildcard)
- AdministratorAccessvia *
- AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicyvia backup:Describe*
- AIOpsAssistantPolicyvia backup:Describe*
- AWSBackupAdminPolicyvia backup:*
- AWSBackupFullAccessvia backup:*
- AWSBackupOperatorAccessvia backup:Describe*
- AWSBackupOperatorPolicyvia backup:Describe*
- AWSBackupRestoreAccessForSAPHANAvia backup:Describe*
- AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
- AWSResilienceHubV2AssessmentExecutionPolicyvia backup:Describe*
- ReadOnlyAccessvia backup:Describe*
- WellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningvia backup: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