ssm:StartSession

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)

11

Allow (Action)

11

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 Systems Manager

Access level

Write

Description

Grants permission to initiate a connection to a specified target for a Session Manager session

Resource types

  • document
  • instance
  • managed-instance
  • task

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