discovery:DescribeConfigurations
AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as discovery:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.
Policies (any)
14
Allow (Action)
7
Allow (wildcard)
7
Deny (Action)
0
NotAction
0
573 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 Application Discovery Service
Access level
ReadDescription
Grants permission to DescribeConfigurations API. DescribeConfigurations retrieves attributes for a list of configuration item IDs. All of the supplied IDs must be for the same asset type (server, application, process, or connection). Output fields are specific to the asset type selected. For example, the output for a server configuration item includes a list of attributes about the server, such as host name, operating system, and number of network cards
Allow (Action)
Allow (wildcard)
- AdministratorAccessvia *
- AWSAgentlessDiscoveryServicevia Discovery:*
- AWSApplicationDiscoveryServiceFullAccessvia discovery:*
- AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
- AWSMigrationHubFullAccessvia discovery:*
- ReadOnlyAccessvia discovery:Describe*
- SupportUservia discovery: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