AWSDirectoryServiceFullAccess

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:25 PM UTC

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Apr 2, 2024

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The same capabilities in a scoped form, resource policy writes, reads across all data, or full access to a whole service. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

Medium
Can rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 1 permissions management action across 1 service (ds) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
ds:createtrust
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.
Medium
Full ds access on every resource
Uses ds:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
ds:*
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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82{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "DirectoryServiceFullAccess",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ds:*",
            "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
            "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
            "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
            "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
            "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
            "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
            "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
            "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "sns:GetTopicAttributes",
            "sns:ListSubscriptions",
            "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "iam:ListRoles",
            "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
            "organizations:ListRoots",
            "organizations:ListAccounts",
            "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
            "organizations:DescribeAccount",
            "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
            "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DirectoryServiceEventTopic",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:CreateTopic",
            "sns:DeleteTopic",
            "sns:SetTopicAttributes",
            "sns:Subscribe",
            "sns:Unsubscribe"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:*:*:DirectoryMonitoring*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DirectoryServiceOrganizations",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
            "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "organizations:ServicePrincipal": "ds.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DirectoryServiceTags",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:CreateTags",
            "ec2:DeleteTags"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v6",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2024-04-02T20:38:17+00:00"
  }
}