shield:describeAttack

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)

1

Allow (Action)

1

Deny (Action)

0

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: AWS Shield

Access level

Read

Description

Grants permission to get attack details. For getting attack details protected by AWS WAF anti-DDoS managed rule group, this action additionally calls wafv2:DescribeTopContributorsByEvent to retrieve application layer attack contributors, which requires to have wafv2:DescribeTopContributorsByEvent permission in IAM policy

Resource types

  • attack*

Allow (Action)

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 4/7/2026, 3:29:24 AM