AmazonElasticMapReduceEditorsRole

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:27 PM UTC

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Feb 9, 2023

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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 2 permissions management actions across 1 service (ec2) on any resource, enough to share resources outside the account.
ec2:createnetworkinterfacepermissionec2:deletenetworkinterfacepermission
Use with caution: Turn on IAM Access Analyzer external access findings, and keep account-level guards like S3 Block Public Access enabled.

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49{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
            "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
            "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
            "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
            "ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
            "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
            "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterfacePermission",
            "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
            "ec2:ModifyNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
            "ec2:DescribeTags",
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "elasticmapreduce:ListInstances",
            "elasticmapreduce:DescribeCluster",
            "elasticmapreduce:ListSteps"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "ec2:CreateTags",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:network-interface/*",
          "Condition": {
            "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
              "aws:TagKeys": [
                "aws:elasticmapreduce:editor-id",
                "aws:elasticmapreduce:job-flow-id"
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v2",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2023-02-09T22:39:29+00:00"
  }
}