Amazon EC2: Allows starting or stopping an EC2 instance and modifying a security group, programmatically and in the console

This example shows how you might create an identity-based policy that allows starting or stopping a specific EC2 instance and modifying a specific security group. This policy defines permissions for programmatic and console access. To use this policy, replace the italicized placeholder text in the example policy with your own information. Then, follow the directions in create a policy or edit a policy.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
        "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupReferences",
        "ec2:DescribeStaleSecurityGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Effect": "Allow"
    },
    {
      "Action": [
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
        "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:instance/i-instance-id",
        "arn:aws:ec2:*:*:security-group/sg-security-group-id"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow"
    }
  ]
}