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managed_policies

Creates, updates, deletes or gets a managed_policy resource or lists managed_policies in a region

Overview

Namemanaged_policies
TypeResource
DescriptionCreates a new managed policy for your AWS-account.
This operation creates a policy version with a version identifier of v1 and sets v1 as the policy's default version. For more information about policy versions, see [Versioning for managed policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/policies-managed-versions.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.
As a best practice, you can validate your IAM policies. To learn more, see [Validating IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_policy-validator.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.
For more information about managed policies in general, see [Managed policies and inline policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/policies-managed-vs-inline.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.
Idaws.iam.managed_policies

Fields

NameDatatypeDescription
descriptionstringA friendly description of the policy.
Typically used to store information about the permissions defined in the policy. For example, "Grants access to production DynamoDB tables."
The policy description is immutable. After a value is assigned, it cannot be changed.
groupsarrayThe name (friendly name, not ARN) of the group to attach the policy to.
This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-
managed_policy_namestringThe friendly name of the policy.
If you specify a name, you cannot perform updates that require replacement of this resource. You can perform updates that require no or some interruption. If you must replace the resource, specify a new name.
If you specify a name, you must specify the CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM value to acknowledge your template's capabilities. For more information, see [Acknowledging Resources in Templates](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/using-iam-template.html#using-iam-capabilities).
Naming an IAM resource can cause an unrecoverable error if you reuse the same template in multiple Regions. To prevent this, we recommend using Fn::Join and AWS::Region to create a Region-specific name, as in the following example: {"Fn::Join": ["", [{"Ref": "AWS::Region"}, {"Ref": "MyResourceName"}]]}.
pathstringThe path for the policy.
For more information about paths, see [IAM identifiers](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/Using_Identifiers.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.
This parameter is optional. If it is not included, it defaults to a slash (/).
This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters consisting of either a forward slash (/) by itself or a string that must begin and end with forward slashes. In addition, it can contain any ASCII character from the ! (\u0021) through the DEL character (\u007F), including most punctuation characters, digits, and upper and lowercased letters.
You cannot use an asterisk (*) in the path name.
policy_documentobjectThe JSON policy document that you want to use as the content for the new policy.
You must provide policies in JSON format in IAM. However, for CFN templates formatted in YAML, you can provide the policy in JSON or YAML format. CFN always converts a YAML policy to JSON format before submitting it to IAM.
The maximum length of the policy document that you can pass in this operation, including whitespace, is listed below. To view the maximum character counts of a managed policy with no whitespaces, see [IAM and character quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_iam-quotas.html#reference_iam-quotas-entity-length).
To learn more about JSON policy grammar, see [Grammar of the IAM JSON policy language](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_policies_grammar.html) in the *IAM User Guide*.
The [regex pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex) used to validate this parameter is a string of characters consisting of the following:
+ Any printable ASCII character ranging from the space character (\u0020) through the end of the ASCII character range
+ The printable characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement character set (through \u00FF)
+ The special characters tab (\u0009), line feed (\u000A), and carriage return (\u000D)
rolesarrayThe name (friendly name, not ARN) of the role to attach the policy to.
This parameter allows (per its [regex pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-
If an external policy (such as AWS::IAM::Policy or AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy) has a Ref to a role and if a resource (such as AWS::ECS::Service) also has a Ref to the same role, add a DependsOn attribute to the resource to make the resource depend on the external policy. This dependency ensures that the role's policy is available throughout the resource's lifecycle. For example, when you delete a stack with an AWS::ECS::Service resource, the DependsOn attribute ensures that CFN deletes the AWS::ECS::Service resource before deleting its role's policy.
usersarrayThe name (friendly name, not ARN) of the IAM user to attach the policy to.
This parameter allows (through its [regex pattern](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/http://wikipedia.org/wiki/regex)) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-
policy_arnstring
attachment_countinteger
create_datestring
update_datestring
default_version_idstring
is_attachableboolean
permissions_boundary_usage_countinteger
policy_idstring
regionstringAWS region.

Methods

NameAccessible byRequired Params
create_resourceINSERTPolicyDocument, region
delete_resourceDELETEdata__Identifier, region
update_resourceUPDATEdata__Identifier, data__PatchDocument, region
list_resourcesSELECTregion
get_resourceSELECTdata__Identifier, region

SELECT examples

Gets all managed_policies in a region.

SELECT
region,
description,
groups,
managed_policy_name,
path,
policy_document,
roles,
users,
policy_arn,
attachment_count,
create_date,
update_date,
default_version_id,
is_attachable,
permissions_boundary_usage_count,
policy_id
FROM aws.iam.managed_policies
;

Gets all properties from an individual managed_policy.

SELECT
region,
description,
groups,
managed_policy_name,
path,
policy_document,
roles,
users,
policy_arn,
attachment_count,
create_date,
update_date,
default_version_id,
is_attachable,
permissions_boundary_usage_count,
policy_id
FROM aws.iam.managed_policies
WHERE data__Identifier = '<PolicyArn>';

INSERT example

Use the following StackQL query and manifest file to create a new managed_policy resource, using stack-deploy.

/*+ create */
INSERT INTO aws.iam.managed_policies (
PolicyDocument,
region
)
SELECT
'{{ PolicyDocument }}',
'{{ region }}';

DELETE example

/*+ delete */
DELETE FROM aws.iam.managed_policies
WHERE data__Identifier = '<PolicyArn>'
AND region = 'us-east-1';

Permissions

To operate on the managed_policies resource, the following permissions are required:

Create

iam:CreatePolicy,
iam:AttachGroupPolicy,
iam:AttachUserPolicy,
iam:AttachRolePolicy

Read

iam:GetPolicy,
iam:ListEntitiesForPolicy,
iam:GetPolicyVersion

Update

iam:DetachRolePolicy,
iam:GetPolicy,
iam:ListPolicyVersions,
iam:DetachGroupPolicy,
iam:DetachUserPolicy,
iam:CreatePolicyVersion,
iam:DeletePolicyVersion,
iam:AttachGroupPolicy,
iam:AttachUserPolicy,
iam:AttachRolePolicy

Delete

iam:DetachRolePolicy,
iam:GetPolicy,
iam:ListPolicyVersions,
iam:DetachGroupPolicy,
iam:DetachUserPolicy,
iam:DeletePolicyVersion,
iam:DeletePolicy,
iam:ListEntitiesForPolicy

List

iam:ListPolicies