# AWS managed policies for Amazon VPC Lattice 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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies) in the *IAM User Guide*. ## AWS managed policy: VPCLatticeFullAccess This policy provides full access to Amazon VPC Lattice and limited access to other dependent services. It includes permissions to do the following: + ACM – Retrieve the SSL/TLS certificate ARN for custom domain names. + CloudWatch – View access logs and monitoring data. + CloudWatch Logs – Set up and send access logs to CloudWatch Logs. + Amazon EC2 – Configure network interfaces and retrieve information about EC2 instances and VPCs. This is used to create resource configurations, resource gateways, and target groups, configure VPC Lattice entity associations, and register targets. + Elastic Load Balancing – Retrieve information about an Application Load Balancer to register it as a target. + Firehose – Retrieve information about delivery streams used to store access logs. + Lambda – Retrieve information about a Lambda function to register it as a target. + Amazon RDS – Retrieve information about RDS clusters and instances. + Amazon S3 – Retrieve information about S3 buckets used to store access logs. To view the permissions for this policy, see [VPCLatticeFullAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/VPCLatticeFullAccess.html) in the *AWS Managed Policy Reference*. To use other AWS services that VPC Lattice is integrated with and the entire suite of VPC Lattice features, you must have specific additional permissions. These permissions are not included in the `VPCLatticeFullAccess` managed policy because of the [confused deputy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/confused-deputy.html) privilege escalation risk. For more information, see [Additional required permissions for full access](security_iam_id-based-policies.md#security_iam_id-based-policy-additional-permissions). ## AWS managed policy: VPCLatticeReadOnlyAccess This policy provides read-only access to Amazon VPC Lattice and limited access to other dependent services. It includes permissions to do the following: + ACM – Retrieve the SSL/TLS certificate ARN for custom domain names. + CloudWatch – View access logs and monitoring data. + CloudWatch Logs – View log delivery information for access log subscriptions. + Amazon EC2 – Retrieve information about EC2 instances and VPCs to create target groups and register targets. + Elastic Load Balancing – Retrieve information about an Application Load Balancer. + Firehose – Retrieve information about delivery streams for access log delivery. + Lambda – View information about a Lambda function. + Amazon RDS – Retrieve information about RDS clusters and instances. + Amazon S3 – Retrieve information about S3 buckets for access log delivery. To view the permissions for this policy, see [VPCLatticeReadOnlyAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/VPCLatticeReadOnlyAccess.html) in the *AWS Managed Policy Reference*. ## AWS managed policy: VPCLatticeServicesInvokeAccess This policy provides access to invoke Amazon VPC Lattice services. To view the permissions for this policy, see [VPCLatticeServicesInvokeAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/VPCLatticeServicesInvokeAccess.html) in the *AWS Managed Policy Reference*. ## AWS managed policy: AWSVpcLatticeServiceRolePolicy This policy is attached to a service-linked role named **AWSServiceRoleForVpcLattice** to allow VPC Lattice to perform actions on your behalf. You can't attach this policy to your IAM entities. For more information, see [Using service-linked roles for Amazon VPC Lattice](using-service-linked-roles.md). To view the permissions for this policy, see [AWSVpcLatticeServiceRolePolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/AWSVpcLatticeServiceRolePolicy.html) in the *AWS Managed Policy Reference*. ## VPC Lattice updates to AWS managed policies View details about updates to AWS managed policies for VPC Lattice since this service began tracking these changes. For automatic alerts about changes to this page, subscribe to the RSS feed for the VPC Lattice User Guide. | Change | Description | Date | | --- | --- | --- | | [VPCLatticeFullAccess](#vpc-lattice-fullaccess-policy) | VPC Lattice adds read-only permissions to describe Amazon RDS clusters and instances. | December 1, 2024 | | [VPCLatticeReadOnlyAccess](#vpc-lattice-read-onlyaccess-policy) | VPC Lattice adds read-only permissions to describe Amazon RDS clusters and instances. | December 1, 2024 | | [AWSVpcLatticeServiceRolePolicy](#service-linked-role-policy) | VPC Lattice adds permissions to allow VPC Lattice to create a requester-managed network interface. | December 1, 2024 | | [VPCLatticeFullAccess](#vpc-lattice-fullaccess-policy) | VPC Lattice adds a new policy to grant permissions for full access to Amazon VPC Lattice and limited access to other dependent services. | March 31, 2023 | | [VPCLatticeReadOnlyAccess](#vpc-lattice-read-onlyaccess-policy) | VPC Lattice adds a new policy to grant permissions for read-only access to Amazon VPC Lattice and limited access to other dependent services. | March 31, 2023 | | [VPCLatticeServicesInvokeAccess](#vpc-lattice-services-invoke-access-policy) | VPC Lattice adds a new policy to grant access to invoke Amazon VPC Lattice services. | March 31, 2023 | | [AWSVpcLatticeServiceRolePolicy](#service-linked-role-policy) | VPC Lattice adds permissions to its service-linked role to allow VPC Lattice to publish CloudWatch metrics in the AWS/VpcLattice namespace. The AWSVpcLatticeServiceRolePolicy policy includes permission to call the CloudWatch [PutMetricData](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_PutMetricData.html) API action. For more information, see [Using service-linked roles for Amazon VPC Lattice](using-service-linked-roles.md). | December 5, 2022 | | VPC Lattice started tracking changes | VPC Lattice started tracking changes for its AWS managed policies. | December 5, 2022 |