AmazonKendraFullAccess

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Mar 12, 2026

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Version

v1

Total Versions

1

Created

Dec 3, 2019

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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

    Full kendra access on every resource

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

    kendra:*

    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": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:PassRole",
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:PassedToService": "kendra.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:ListRoles"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
            "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
            "ec2:DescribeSubnets"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "kms:ListKeys",
            "kms:ListAliases",
            "kms:DescribeKey"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
            "s3:GetBucketLocation"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "secretsmanager:ListSecrets"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "secretsmanager:CreateSecret",
            "secretsmanager:DescribeSecret"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:*:*:secret:AmazonKendra-*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "kendra:*",
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v1",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2019-12-03T16:15:37+00:00"
  }
}

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