AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess

Last Modified

Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:27 PM UTC

Version

v15

Total Versions

Created

Jan 29, 2021

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Risk

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 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.
- datapipeline-001iam:PassRole + datapipeline:CreatePipeline + datapipeline:PutPipelineDefinition + datapipeline:ActivatePipelinescoped
  - iam:PassRole: condition iam:PassedToService
- lambda-002iam:PassRole + lambda:CreateFunction + lambda:CreateEventSourceMappingscoped
  - 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.
Medium
Can read secrets
Reads Lambda environment variables, where credentials often live, on any resource with no condition.
lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration
Use with caution: Where the holder needs only some secrets, write your own policy scoped to their ARNs or tags, and limit decryption in the KMS key policies.
Medium
Can rewrite resource policies and sharing
Grants 2 permissions management actions across 1 service (dynamodb) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
dynamodb:deleteresourcepolicydynamodb:putresourcepolicy
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.
Medium
Can read data in every bucket or table
Reads any DynamoDB table. Read-only is not the same as harmless when the data is the asset.
dynamodb:Scan (via dynamodb:*)dynamodb:GetItem (via dynamodb:*)
Use with caution: Read access to data is still access to data. For people who only need to see configuration, ViewOnlyAccess carries none of these signals.
Medium
Full access to 2 services on every resource
Uses dax:*, dynamodb:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to those services later is granted too.
dax:*dynamodb:*
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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115{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Action": [
            "dynamodb:*",
            "dax:*",
            "application-autoscaling:DeleteScalingPolicy",
            "application-autoscaling:DeregisterScalableTarget",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
            "application-autoscaling:PutScalingPolicy",
            "application-autoscaling:RegisterScalableTarget",
            "cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
            "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmHistory",
            "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
            "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarmsForMetric",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "cloudwatch:ListMetrics",
            "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
            "datapipeline:ActivatePipeline",
            "datapipeline:CreatePipeline",
            "datapipeline:DeletePipeline",
            "datapipeline:DescribeObjects",
            "datapipeline:DescribePipelines",
            "datapipeline:GetPipelineDefinition",
            "datapipeline:ListPipelines",
            "datapipeline:PutPipelineDefinition",
            "datapipeline:QueryObjects",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "iam:GetRole",
            "iam:ListRoles",
            "kms:DescribeKey",
            "kms:ListAliases",
            "sns:CreateTopic",
            "sns:DeleteTopic",
            "sns:ListSubscriptions",
            "sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "sns:Subscribe",
            "sns:Unsubscribe",
            "sns:SetTopicAttributes",
            "lambda:CreateFunction",
            "lambda:ListFunctions",
            "lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",
            "lambda:CreateEventSourceMapping",
            "lambda:DeleteEventSourceMapping",
            "lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration",
            "lambda:DeleteFunction",
            "resource-groups:ListGroups",
            "resource-groups:ListGroupResources",
            "resource-groups:GetGroup",
            "resource-groups:GetGroupQuery",
            "resource-groups:DeleteGroup",
            "resource-groups:CreateGroup",
            "tag:GetResources",
            "kinesis:ListStreams",
            "kinesis:DescribeStream",
            "kinesis:DescribeStreamSummary"
          ],
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Action": "cloudwatch:GetInsightRuleReport",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:insight-rule/DynamoDBContributorInsights*"
        },
        {
          "Action": [
            "iam:PassRole"
          ],
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:PassedToService": [
                "application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com",
                "application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com.cn",
                "dax.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": [
                "replication.dynamodb.amazonaws.com",
                "dax.amazonaws.com",
                "dynamodb.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com",
                "contributorinsights.dynamodb.amazonaws.com",
                "kinesisreplication.dynamodb.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v15",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2021-01-29T17:38:30+00:00"
  }
}