eks:DescribeNodegroup
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)
13
Allow (Action)
13
Deny (Action)
0
NotAction
0
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 Kubernetes Service
Access level
ReadDescription
Grants permission to retrieve descriptive information about an Amazon EKS nodegroup
Resource types
- nodegroup*
Allow (Action)
- AWSBackupServiceLinkedRolePolicyForBackup
- AWSBackupServiceRolePolicyForBackup
- AWSBackupServiceRolePolicyForRestores
- AWSConfigRole
- AWSConfigServiceRolePolicy
- AWSFaultInjectionSimulatorEKSAccess
- AWSResilienceHubAsssessmentExecutionPolicy
- AWSResourceExplorerServiceRolePolicy
- AWS_ConfigRole
- AmazonEKSMCPReadOnlyAccess
- AmazonFISServiceRolePolicy
- CloudwatchApplicationInsightsServiceLinkedRolePolicy
- ViewOnlyAccess
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 generated 5/22/2026, 8:10:29 PM