AWS managed policies for Amazon CloudFront

To add permissions to users, groups, and roles, it’s easier to use AWS managed policies than to write policies yourself. It takes time and expertise to create IAM customer managed policies that provide your users with only the permissions they need. To get started quickly, you can use our AWS managed policies. These policies cover common use cases and are available in your AWS account. For more information about AWS managed policies, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS services maintain and update AWS managed policies. You can’t change the permissions in AWS managed policies. Services occasionally add additional permissions to an AWS managed policy to support new features. This type of update affects all identities (users, groups, and roles) where the policy is attached. Services are most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new feature is launched or when new permissions become available. Services do not remove permissions from an AWS managed policy, so policy updates won’t break your existing permissions.

Additionally, AWS supports managed policies for job functions that span multiple services. For example, the ReadOnlyAccess AWS managed policy provides read-only access to all AWS services and resources. When a service launches a new feature, AWS adds read-only permissions for new operations and resources. For a list and descriptions of job function policies, see AWS managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the CloudFrontReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy allows read-only permissions to CloudFront resources. It also allows read-only permissions to other AWS service resources that are related to CloudFront and that are visible in the CloudFront console.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "cfReadOnly",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "cloudfront:Describe*",
        "cloudfront:Get*",
        "cloudfront:List*",
        "cloudfront-keyvaluestore:Describe*",
        "cloudfront-keyvaluestore:Get*",
        "cloudfront-keyvaluestore:List*",
        "iam:ListServerCertificates",
        "route53:List*",
        "waf:ListWebACLs",
        "waf:GetWebACL",
        "wafv2:ListWebACLs",
        "wafv2:GetWebACL"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

AWS managed policy: CloudFrontFullAccess

You can attach the CloudFrontFullAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy allows administrative permissions to CloudFront resources. It also allows read-only permissions to other AWS service resources that are related to CloudFront and that are visible in the CloudFront console.

Permissions details

This policy includes the following permissions.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "cfflistbuckets",
      "Action": [
        "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "cffullaccess",
      "Action": [
        "acm:ListCertificates",
        "cloudfront:*",
        "cloudfront-keyvaluestore:*",
        "iam:ListServerCertificates",
        "waf:ListWebACLs",
        "waf:GetWebACL",
        "wafv2:ListWebACLs",
        "wafv2:GetWebACL",
        "kinesis:ListStreams"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "cffdescribestream",
      "Action": [
        "kinesis:DescribeStream"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:kinesis:*:*:*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "cfflistroles",
      "Action": [
        "iam:ListRoles"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:*"
    }
  ]
}

AWS managed policy: AWSCloudFrontLogger

You can’t attach the AWSCloudFrontLogger policy to your IAM identities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows CloudFront to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked roles for Lambda@Edge.

This policy allows CloudFront to push log files to Amazon CloudWatch. For details about the permissions included in this policy, see Service-linked role permissions for CloudFront logger.

AWS managed policy: AWSLambdaReplicator

You can’t attach the AWSLambdaReplicator policy to your IAM identities. This policy is attached to a service-linked role that allows CloudFront to perform actions on your behalf. For more information, see Service-linked roles for Lambda@Edge.

This policy allows CloudFront to create, delete, and disable functions in AWS Lambda to replicate Lambda@Edge functions to AWS Regions. For details about the permissions included in this policy, see Service-linked role permissions for Lambda replicator.

CloudFront updates to AWS managed policies

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