AWS managed policies for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

An AWS managed policy is a standalone policy that is created and administered by AWS. AWS managed policies are designed to provide permissions for many common use cases so that you can start assigning permissions to users, groups, and roles.

Keep in mind that AWS managed policies might not grant least-privilege permissions for your specific use cases because they're available for all AWS customers to use. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases.

You cannot change the permissions defined in AWS managed policies. If AWS updates the permissions defined in an AWS managed policy, the update affects all principal identities (users, groups, and roles) that the policy is attached to. AWS is most likely to update an AWS managed policy when a new AWS service is launched or new API operations become available for existing services.

For more information, see AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

AWS managed policy: AmazonVPCFullAccess

You can attach the AmazonVPCFullAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow full access to Amazon VPC.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AmazonVPCFullAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AmazonVPCReadOnlyAccess

You can attach the AmazonVPCReadOnlyAccess policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow read-only access to Amazon VPC.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AmazonVPCReadOnlyAccess in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

AWS managed policy: AmazonVPCCrossAccountNetworkInterfaceOperations

You can attach the AmazonVPCCrossAccountNetworkInterfaceOperations policy to your IAM identities. This policy grants permissions that allow the identity to create network interfaces and attach them to cross-account resources.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AmazonVPCCrossAccountNetworkInterfaceOperations in the AWS Managed Policy Reference.

Amazon VPC updates to AWS managed policies

View details about updates to AWS managed policies for Amazon VPC since this service began tracking these changes in March 2021.