AWSCloudTrail_FullAccess

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:25 PM UTC

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Feb 22, 2021

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High

An unrestricted escalation path, identity administration, secret reads or the power to switch off security monitoring. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

High
Can switch off security monitoring
Can stop a CloudTrail trail, delete a CloudTrail trail, redirect or narrow a CloudTrail trail, change which events CloudTrail records, which is how an intruder hides.
cloudtrail:StopLogging (via cloudtrail:*)cloudtrail:DeleteTrail (via cloudtrail:*)cloudtrail:UpdateTrail (via cloudtrail:*)cloudtrail:PutEventSelectors (via cloudtrail:*)
Use with caution: Deny these actions with an SCP for everyone outside a break-glass role, so no single policy can blind you.
Medium
Full cloudtrail access on every resource
Uses cloudtrail:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
cloudtrail:*
Use with caution: The grant grows every time the service does. For long-lived access, prefer a policy that lists the actions you actually need.

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111{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:AddPermission",
            "sns:CreateTopic",
            "sns:SetTopicAttributes",
            "sns:GetTopicAttributes"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:sns:*:*:aws-cloudtrail-logs*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:ListTopics"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:CreateBucket",
            "s3:PutBucketPolicy",
            "s3:PutBucketPublicAccessBlock"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:s3:::aws-cloudtrail-logs*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
            "s3:GetBucketLocation",
            "s3:GetBucketPolicy"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "cloudtrail:*",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "logs:CreateLogGroup"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:aws-cloudtrail-logs*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:ListRoles",
            "iam:GetRolePolicy",
            "iam:GetUser"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": "cloudtrail.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kms:CreateKey",
            "kms:CreateAlias",
            "kms:ListKeys",
            "kms:ListAliases"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "lambda:ListFunctions"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "dynamodb:ListGlobalTables",
            "dynamodb:ListTables"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2021-02-22T19:01:00+00:00"
  }
}