AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:26 PM UTC

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Dec 15, 2020

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Medium

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 7 permissions management actions across 4 services (apigateway, waf-regional, waf, wafv2) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
apigateway:setwebaclwaf-regional:deletepermissionpolicywaf-regional:putpermissionpolicywaf:deletepermissionpolicywaf:putpermissionpolicywafv2:deletepermissionpolicywafv2:putpermissionpolicy
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.
Medium
Full access to 4 services on every resource
Uses shield:*, waf:*, waf-regional:*, wafv2:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to those services later is granted too.
shield:*waf:*waf-regional:*wafv2:*
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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44{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "SRTAccessProtectedResources",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudfront:List*",
            "route53:List*",
            "elasticloadbalancing:Describe*",
            "cloudwatch:Describe*",
            "cloudwatch:Get*",
            "cloudwatch:List*",
            "cloudfront:GetDistribution*",
            "globalaccelerator:ListAccelerators",
            "globalaccelerator:DescribeAccelerator",
            "ec2:DescribeRegions",
            "ec2:DescribeAddresses"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "SRTManageProtections",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "shield:*",
            "waf:*",
            "wafv2:*",
            "waf-regional:*",
            "elasticloadbalancing:SetWebACL",
            "cloudfront:UpdateDistribution",
            "apigateway:SetWebACL"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v6",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2020-12-15T17:28:15+00:00"
  }
}