AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess

Last Modified

Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:27 PM UTC

Version

v3

Total Versions

7

Created

Nov 28, 2023

Actions

22

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

    Full elasticache access on every resource

    Uses elasticache:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.

    elasticache:*

    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.

Policy Document

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "ElastiCacheManagementActions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "elasticache:*",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CreateServiceLinkedRole",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/elasticache.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForElastiCache",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": "elasticache.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CreateVPCEndpoints",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "ec2:VpceServiceName": "com.amazonaws.elasticache.serverless.*"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAccessToElastiCacheTaggedVpcEndpoints",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:CreateVpcEndpoint"
          ],
          "NotResource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "TagVPCEndpointsOnCreation",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:CreateTags"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:vpc-endpoint/*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateVpcEndpoint",
              "aws:RequestTag/AmazonElastiCacheManaged": "true"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAccessToEc2",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAccessToKMS",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kms:DescribeKey",
            "kms:ListAliases",
            "kms:ListKeys"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAccessToCloudWatch",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAccessToAutoScaling",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalableTargets",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingPolicies",
            "application-autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DescribeLogGroups",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "ListLogDeliveryStreams",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "firehose:ListDeliveryStreams"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "DescribeS3Buckets",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAccessToOutposts",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "outposts:ListOutposts"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowAccessToSNS",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:ListTopics"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2023-11-28T03:49:56+00:00"
  }
}

Version History (10 recorded)

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AmazonElastiCacheFullAccess - Policy Version v3

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Nov 28, 2023

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Sep 16, 2019

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Aug 29, 2019

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Jul 12, 2019

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