sts:GetFederationToken

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

Policies (any)

4

Allow (Action)

0

Allow (wildcard)

2

Deny (Action)

2

NotAction

0

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

2024-10-02 in AWSCompromisedKeyQuarantineV2

Service prefix sts

2019-05-03 in AWSControlTowerServiceRolePolicy

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 Security Token Service

Access level

Write

Description

Grants permission to obtain a set of temporary security credentials (consisting of an access key ID, a secret access key, and a security token) for a federated user

Resource types

  • federated-user

Dependent actions

  • sts:TagSession

Allow (Action)

None

Allow (wildcard)

Deny (Action)

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