ec2:RunInstances

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)

65

Allow (Action)

62

Deny (Action)

6

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 launch one or more instances

Resource types

  • image*
  • instance*
  • network-interface*
  • security-group*
  • subnet*
  • capacity-reservation
  • elastic-gpu
  • elastic-inference
  • group
  • key-pair
  • launch-template
  • license-configuration
  • placement-group
  • secondary-subnet
  • snapshot
  • volume

Dependent actions

  • ec2:CreateTags
  • iam:PassRole
  • ssm:GetParameters

Allow (Action)

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