CloudWatchApplicationInsightsFullAccess

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:28 PM UTC

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Jan 25, 2022

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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

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Full applicationinsights access on every resource
Uses applicationinsights:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
applicationinsights:*
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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60{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "applicationinsights:*",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "ec2:DescribeInstances",
            "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
            "rds:DescribeDBInstances",
            "rds:DescribeDBClusters",
            "sqs:ListQueues",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
            "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
            "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
            "lambda:ListFunctions",
            "dynamodb:ListTables",
            "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
            "sns:ListTopics",
            "states:ListStateMachines",
            "apigateway:GET",
            "ecs:ListClusters",
            "ecs:DescribeTaskDefinition",
            "ecs:ListServices",
            "ecs:ListTasks",
            "eks:ListClusters",
            "eks:ListNodegroups",
            "fsx:DescribeFileSystems",
            "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-insights.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationInsights"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": "application-insights.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v4",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2022-01-25T17:51:29+00:00"
  }
}

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