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)

Allow (Action)

Deny (Action)

NotAction

571 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service). 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 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*

Dependent actions

shield:DescribeProtectionGroup

Allow (Action)

AWSSupportServiceRolePolicy

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 regenerated on every deploy