AmazonEC2RoleforDataPipelineRole

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Feb 22, 2016

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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 37 permissions management actions across 5 services (cloudwatch, dynamodb, s3, sns, sqs) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
cloudwatch:assumeaccessprofilecloudwatch:createaccessgrantcloudwatch:createaccessprofilecloudwatch:createdomainaccessgrantfororganizationcloudwatch:deleteaccessgrantcloudwatch:deleteaccessprofilecloudwatch:deletedomainaccessgrantfororganizationcloudwatch:updateaccessprofiledynamodb:deleteresourcepolicydynamodb:putresourcepolicys3:associateaccessgrantsidentitycenters3:createaccessgrantand 25 more
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 object in any S3 bucket; any DynamoDB table. Read-only is not the same as harmless when the data is the asset.
s3:GetObject (via s3:*)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 7 services on every resource
Uses cloudwatch:*, datapipeline:*, dynamodb:*, s3:*, sdb:*, sns:*, sqs:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to those services later is granted too.
cloudwatch:*datapipeline:*dynamodb:*s3:*sdb:*sns:*sqs:*
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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35{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:*",
            "datapipeline:*",
            "dynamodb:*",
            "ec2:Describe*",
            "elasticmapreduce:AddJobFlowSteps",
            "elasticmapreduce:Describe*",
            "elasticmapreduce:ListInstance*",
            "elasticmapreduce:ModifyInstanceGroups",
            "rds:Describe*",
            "redshift:DescribeClusters",
            "redshift:DescribeClusterSecurityGroups",
            "s3:*",
            "sdb:*",
            "sns:*",
            "sqs:*"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2016-02-22T17:24:05+00:00"
  }
}