ds:describeDomainControllers
AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as ds:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.
Policies (any)
17
Allow (Action)
2
Allow (wildcard)
15
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
2023-06-09 in AWS_ConfigRole
Service prefix ds
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 Directory Service
Access level
ReadDescription
Grants permission to provide information about any domain controllers in your directory
Resource types
- directory*
Allow (wildcard)
- AdministratorAccessvia *
- AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicyvia ds:Describe*
- AIOpsAssistantPolicyvia ds:Describe*
- AmazonApplicationWizardFullaccessvia ds:Describe*
- AmazonLaunchWizard_Fullaccessvia ds:Describe*
- AmazonLaunchWizardFullaccessvia ds:Describe*
- AmazonLaunchWizardFullAccessV2via ds:Describe*
- AmazonZocaloFullAccessvia ds:*
- AWSDirectoryServiceFullAccessvia ds:*
- AWSDirectoryServiceReadOnlyAccessvia ds:Describe*
- AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
- AWSResilienceHubV2AssessmentExecutionPolicyvia ds:Describe*
- ReadOnlyAccessvia ds:Describe*
- SystemAdministratorvia ds:*
- WellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningvia ds: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