ecs:RunTask

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 5/22/2026, 8:10:29 PM. 562 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service).

Action reference

SAR-style (unofficial)

Service: Amazon Elastic Container Service

Access level

Write

Description

Grants permission to start a task using random placement and the default Amazon ECS scheduler

Resource types

task-definition*

Dependent actions

iam:PassRole

Allow (Action)

AWSBatchServiceRole
AWSMediaConnectServicePolicy
AWSTransformApplicationECSDeploymentPolicy
AmazonEC2ContainerServiceEventsRole
BatchServiceRolePolicy

Deny (Action)

None

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 5/22/2026, 8:10:29 PM