ec2:CreateSnapshots

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)

Allow (Action)

Deny (Action)

NotAction

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 create crash-consistent snapshots of multiple EBS volumes and store them in Amazon S3

Resource types

instance*
snapshot*
volume*

Dependent actions

ec2:CreateTags

Allow (Action)

AWSDataLifecycleManagerServiceRole
AWSEC2VssSnapshotPolicy
AmazonInspector2AgentlessServiceRolePolicy
AmazonRDSCustomInstanceProfileRolePolicy
AmazonRDSCustomPreviewServiceRolePolicy
AmazonRDSCustomServiceRolePolicy

Deny (Action)

AmazonInspector2AgentlessServiceRolePolicy

NotAction

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