CloudWatchApplicationSignalsFullAccess

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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 application-signals access on every resource
Uses application-signals:* with Resource "*" and no condition, so every action AWS adds to that service later is granted too.
application-signals:*
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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Error / INVALID_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_FORMAT
The service principal does not match the expected format. Use the format service.amazonaws.com, or use one of the following suffixes: .amazon.com, .amazonaws.com.cn with all lowercase letters. AWS docs

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223{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsFullAccessPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "application-signals:*",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsAlarmsPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsMetricsPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
            "cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsLogsPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "logs:StartQuery",
            "logs:StopQuery",
            "logs:GetQueryResults",
            "logs:DescribeLogGroups"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsSyntheticsPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "synthetics:DescribeCanaries",
            "synthetics:DescribeCanariesLastRun",
            "synthetics:GetCanaryRuns"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsRumPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "rum:BatchCreateRumMetricDefinitions",
            "rum:BatchDeleteRumMetricDefinitions",
            "rum:BatchGetRumMetricDefinitions",
            "rum:GetAppMonitor",
            "rum:GetAppMonitorData",
            "rum:ListAppMonitors",
            "rum:PutRumMetricsDestination",
            "rum:UpdateRumMetricDefinition"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsXrayTracePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "xray:GetTraceSummaries"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsXrayPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "xray:StartTraceRetrieval",
            "xray:ListRetrievedTraces",
            "xray:BatchGetTraces",
            "xray:GetTraceSegmentDestination"
          ],
          "Resource": "*",
          "Condition": {
            "ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
              "aws:CalledVia": [
                "application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsPutMetricAlarmPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:SLO-AttainmentGoalAlarm-*",
            "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:SLO-WarningAlarm-*",
            "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:alarm:SLI-HealthAlarm-*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsCreateServiceLinkedRolePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals",
          "Condition": {
            "StringLike": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": "application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsGetRolePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "iam:GetRole",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/application-signals.cloudwatch.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForCloudWatchApplicationSignals"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsSnsWritePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sns:CreateTopic",
            "sns:Subscribe"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:*:*:cloudwatch-application-signals-*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsSnsReadPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": "sns:ListTopics",
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsCloudTrailPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudtrail:CreateServiceLinkedChannel",
            "cloudtrail:GetChannel"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:cloudtrail:*:*:channel/aws-service-channel/application-signals/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsCloudTrailListPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "cloudtrail:ListChannels"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsServiceQuotaPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "servicequotas:GetServiceQuota"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:s3/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:dynamodb/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:kinesis/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:sns/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:bedrock/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:lambda/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:fargate/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:elasticloadbalancing/*",
            "arn:aws:servicequotas:*:*:ec2/*"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsResourceExplorerPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "resource-explorer-2:ListIndexes",
            "resource-explorer-2:Search"
          ],
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*::view/AWSServiceViewForApplicationSignals/service-view",
            "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*::view/AWSServiceViewForApplicationSignalsOrgScopeProd/service-view"
          ]
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsResourceExplorerSLRPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForResourceExplorer",
          "Condition": {
            "StringEquals": {
              "iam:AWSServiceName": [
                "resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com"
              ]
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsResourceExplorerCreateIndexPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "resource-explorer-2:CreateIndex"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:resource-explorer-2:*:*:index/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsOAMAttachedLinksPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "oam:ListAttachedLinks"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:oam:*:*:sink/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "CloudWatchApplicationSignalsOAMListSinksPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "oam:ListSinks"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v7",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T17:57:47+00:00"
  }
}

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v7updated

scope changed, no action added or removed

Mar 12, 2026

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CloudWatchApplicationSignalsFullAccess - Policy Version v7