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Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Data Pipeline - Service Authorization Reference

Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Data Pipeline

AWS Data Pipeline (service prefix: datapipeline) provides the following service-specific operations, resources, actions, and condition keys for use in IAM permission policies.

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API operations defined by AWS Data Pipeline

The following table maps API operations to the IAM actions they authorize. Only condition keys that have static values for the given API and action are listed; for the full set of condition keys supported by each action, see the Actions table.

Operation IAM action Condition key Possible value(s) Access level

ActivatePipeline

datapipeline:ActivatePipeline

Write

iam:PassRole

iam:PassedToService

datapipeline.amazonaws.com, ec2.amazonaws.com, elasticmapreduce.amazonaws.com

Write

AddTags

datapipeline:AddTags

Tagging, Write

CreatePipeline

datapipeline:AddTags

Tagging, Write

datapipeline:CreatePipeline

Write

DeactivatePipeline

datapipeline:DeactivatePipeline

Write

DeletePipeline

datapipeline:DeletePipeline

Write

DescribeObjects

datapipeline:DescribeObjects

Read

DescribePipelines

datapipeline:DescribePipelines

Read

EvaluateExpression

datapipeline:EvaluateExpression

Read

GetPipelineDefinition

datapipeline:GetPipelineDefinition

Read

ListPipelines

datapipeline:ListPipelines

List

PollForTask

datapipeline:PollForTask

Write

PutPipelineDefinition

datapipeline:PutPipelineDefinition

Write

iam:PassRole

iam:PassedToService

datapipeline.amazonaws.com, ec2.amazonaws.com, elasticmapreduce.amazonaws.com

Write

QueryObjects

datapipeline:QueryObjects

Read

RemoveTags

datapipeline:RemoveTags

Tagging, Write

ReportTaskProgress

datapipeline:ReportTaskProgress

Write

ReportTaskRunnerHeartbeat

datapipeline:ReportTaskRunnerHeartbeat

Write

SetStatus

datapipeline:SetStatus

Write

SetTaskStatus

datapipeline:SetTaskStatus

Write

ValidatePipelineDefinition

datapipeline:ValidatePipelineDefinition

Read

iam:PassRole

iam:PassedToService

datapipeline.amazonaws.com, ec2.amazonaws.com, elasticmapreduce.amazonaws.com

Write

Actions defined by AWS Data Pipeline

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

Actions Description Resource types (*required) Condition keys Access level

ActivatePipeline

Grants permission to validate the specified pipeline and starts processing pipeline tasks. If the pipeline does not pass validation, activation fails

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:workerGroup

Write

AddTags

Grants permission to add or modify tags for the specified pipeline

pipeline*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Tagging, Write

CreatePipeline

Grants permission to create a new, empty pipeline

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Write

DeactivatePipeline

Grants permission to Deactivate the specified running pipeline

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:workerGroup

Write

DeletePipeline

Grants permission to delete a pipeline, its pipeline definition, and its run history

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Write

DescribeObjects

Grants permission to get the object definitions for a set of objects associated with the pipeline

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Read

DescribePipelines

Grants permission to retrieves metadata about one or more pipelines

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Read

EvaluateExpression

Grants permission to task runners to call EvaluateExpression, to evaluate a string in the context of the specified object

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Read

GetPipelineDefinition

Grants permission to gets the definition of the specified pipeline

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:workerGroup

Read

ListPipelines

Grants permission to list the pipeline identifiers for all active pipelines that you have permission to access

List

PollForTask

Grants permission to task runners to call PollForTask, to receive a task to perform from AWS Data Pipeline

datapipeline:workerGroup

Write

PutPipelineDefinition

Grants permission to add tasks, schedules, and preconditions to the specified pipeline

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:workerGroup

Write

QueryObjects

Grants permission to query the specified pipeline for the names of objects that match the specified set of conditions

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Read

RemoveTags

Grants permission to remove existing tags from the specified pipeline

pipeline*

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

aws:TagKeys

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Tagging, Write

ReportTaskProgress

Grants permission to task runners to call ReportTaskProgress, when they are assigned a task to acknowledge that it has the task

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

ReportTaskRunnerHeartbeat

Grants permission to task runners to call ReportTaskRunnerHeartbeat every 15 minutes to indicate that they are operational

Write

SetStatus

Grants permission to requests that the status of the specified physical or logical pipeline objects be updated in the specified pipeline

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Write

SetTaskStatus

Grants permission to task runners to call SetTaskStatus to notify AWS Data Pipeline that a task is completed and provide information about the final status

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Write

ValidatePipelineDefinition

Grants permission to validate the specified pipeline definition to ensure that it is well formed and can be run without error

pipeline*

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

datapipeline:workerGroup

Read

Permission-only actions for AWS Data Pipeline

The following actions are defined by AWS Data Pipeline but are not directly invocable through any API operation. They can only be used in IAM policy statements to grant or deny permissions.

Actions Description Resource types (*required) Condition keys Access level

GetAccountLimits

Grants permission to call GetAccountLimits

List

PutAccountLimits

Grants permission to call PutAccountLimits

Write

Resource types defined by AWS Data Pipeline

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements.

Resource types ARN Condition keys

pipeline

arn:${Partition}:datapipeline:${Region}:${Account}:pipeline/${PipelineId}

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for AWS Data Pipeline

AWS Data Pipeline defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy.

Condition keys Description Type

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}

Filters access by the presence of tag key-value pairs in the request

String

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Filters access by tag key-value pairs attached to the resource

String

aws:TagKeys

Filters access by the presence of tag keys in the request

ArrayOfString

datapipeline:PipelineCreator

Filters access by the IAM user that created the pipeline

ArrayOfString

datapipeline:Tag/${TagKey}

Filters access by customer-specified key/value pair that can be attached to a resource

String

datapipeline:workerGroup

Filters access by the name of a worker group for which a Task Runner retrieves work

ArrayOfString