ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress

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)

72

Allow (Action)

72

Deny (Action)

0

NotAction

1

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 EC2

Access level

Write

Description

Grants permission to add one or more inbound rules to a VPC security group. Policies using the security-group-rule resource-level permission are only enforced when the API request includes TagSpecifications

Resource types

  • security-group*
  • security-group-rule

Dependent actions

  • ec2:CreateTags

Allow (Action)

Deny (Action)

None

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