kms:DescribeKey

AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as kms:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.

Policies (any)

142

Allow (Action)

133

Allow (wildcard)

9

Deny (Action)

0

NotAction

3

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 history

This 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: AWS Key Management Service

Access level

Read

Description

Controls permission to view detailed information about an AWS KMS key

Resource types

  • key*

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

Deny (Action)

None

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