AWSEC2SpotFleetServiceRolePolicy

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March 12, 2026 at 09:26 PM UTC

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Mar 16, 2020

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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

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Can launch resources that run as a more privileged role
Grants the actions of 2 documented escalation paths, but only on named resources or under a condition. Review that scope before trusting it.
- ec2-001iam:PassRole + ec2:RunInstancesscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService
- ec2-003iam:PassRole + ec2:RequestSpotInstancesscoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService
Use with caution: Check which roles, users or policies fall inside the scope shown above. Within it the escalation works as documented, so keep privileged principals out of it.

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Suggestion / EQUIVALENT_TO_NULL_FALSE
We recommend replacing the key ec2:ResourceTag/aws:ec2spot:fleet-request-id in the condition block of StringLike with {ec2:ResourceTag/aws:ec2spot:fleet-request-id: false} to ensure better enforcement of the condition. AWS docs

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84{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:DescribeImages",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:RequestSpotInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeInstanceStatus",
            "ec2:RunInstances"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "ec2.amazonaws.com",
                "ec2.amazonaws.com.cn"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:CreateTags"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:spot-instances-request/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:spot-fleet-request/*",
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:TerminateInstances"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "ec2:ResourceTag/aws:ec2spot:fleet-request-id": "*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:loadbalancer/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:*:*:*/*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v4",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2020-03-16T19:16:21+00:00"
  }
}