AWSEC2VssRestorePolicy

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March 31, 2026 at 08:44 AM UTC

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Mar 25, 2026

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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

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Can take over existing resources that run as another role
Grants every action of 1 documented escalation path on any resource with no condition.
- ssm-002ssm:SendCommandunrestricted
Use with caution: List the roles attached to the functions, instances, pipelines or notebooks it can modify: the holder effectively has them too.

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

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107{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "CreateVolumeAccessVolume",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:CreateVolume",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "aws:RequestTag/AwsVssConfig": "*"
            },
            "ArnLike": {
              "ec2:ParentSnapshot": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CreateVolumeAccessSnapshot",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:CreateVolume",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:snapshot/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "ec2:ResourceTag/AwsVssConfig": "*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CreateVolumeWithTagging",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:volume/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateVolume"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AttachVolumeAccessVolume",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:AttachVolume",
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "ec2:ResourceTag/AwsVssConfig": "*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AttachVolumeAccessInstance",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:AttachVolume",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DescribeVolumes",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DescribeSnapshots",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:DescribeSnapshots",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DescribeInstanceAttribute",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SsmAutomationRead",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:DescribeInstanceInformation",
            "ssm:ListCommandInvocations",
            "ssm:ListCommands"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SsmRunCommand",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ssm:SendCommand",
            "ssm:GetDocument"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/*",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWS-ConfigureAWSPackage",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWSEC2-PrepareVssRestore",
            "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:document/AWSEC2-RunVssRestoreForSqlDatabase"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v1",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-03-25T23:12:16+00:00"
  }
}

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