ecs:DescribeTaskDefinition
AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as ecs:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.
Policies (any)
32
Allow (Action)
14
Allow (wildcard)
18
Deny (Action)
0
NotAction
0
572 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
Already present when the archive began, on 2019-02-10
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: Amazon Elastic Container Service
Access level
ReadDescription
Grants permission to describe a task definition. You can specify a family and revision to find information about a specific task definition, or you can simply specify the family to find the latest ACTIVE revision in that family
Allow (Action)
- AWSBatchServiceRole
- AWSConfigRole
- AWSConfigServiceRolePolicy
- AWSRefactoringToolkitFullAccess
- AWSResilienceHubAsssessmentExecutionPolicy
- AWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy
- AWSTrustedAdvisorServiceRolePolicy
- AWSWellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningServiceRolePolicy
- AWS_ConfigRole
- AmazonGuardDutyServiceRolePolicy
- AssuranceServiceRolePolicy
- BatchServiceRolePolicy
- CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccess
- CloudwatchApplicationInsightsServiceLinkedRolePolicy
Allow (wildcard)
- AdministratorAccessvia *
- AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalkvia ecs:Describe*
- AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicyvia ecs:Describe*
- AIOpsAssistantPolicyvia ecs:Describe*
- AmazonEC2ContainerServiceFullAccessvia ecs:*
- AmazonECS_FullAccessvia ecs:*
- AWSBatchFullAccessvia ecs:Describe*
- AWSElasticBeanstalkFullAccessvia ecs:*
- AWSElasticBeanstalkManagedUpdatesServiceRolePolicyvia ecs:Describe*
- AWSElasticBeanstalkRoleCorevia ecs:Describe*
- AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
- AWSResilienceHubV2AssessmentExecutionPolicyvia ecs:Describe*
- CloudWatchOmniAWSIntegrationPolicyvia ecs:Describe*
- ReadOnlyAccessvia ecs:Describe*
- SecurityAuditvia ecs:Describe*
- SupportUservia ecs:Describe*
- ViewOnlyAccessvia ecs:Describe*
- WellArchitectedAgentResourceScanningvia ecs: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