ec2:RequestSpotInstances

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)

12

Allow (Action)

9

Deny (Action)

3

NotAction

0

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 a Spot Instance request

Resource types

  • spot-instances-request*
  • image
  • key-pair
  • network-interface
  • placement-group
  • security-group
  • snapshot
  • subnet

Dependent actions

  • ec2:CreateTags
  • iam:PassRole

Allow (Action)

Deny (Action)

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