Operations Actions Resource types Condition keys

Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Private Certificate Authority

AWS Private Certificate Authority (service prefix: acm-pca) 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 Private Certificate Authority
Actions defined by AWS Private Certificate Authority
Resource types defined by AWS Private Certificate Authority
Condition keys for AWS Private Certificate Authority

API operations defined by AWS Private Certificate Authority

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	Access level
CreateCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:CreateCertificateAuthority	Write
CreateCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:TagCertificateAuthority	Tagging, Write
CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport	acm-pca:CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport	Write
CreatePermission	acm-pca:CreatePermission	Permissions management, Write
DeleteCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:DeleteCertificateAuthority	Write
DeletePermission	acm-pca:DeletePermission	Permissions management, Write
DeletePolicy	acm-pca:DeletePolicy	Permissions management, Write
DescribeCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority	Read
DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport	acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport	Read
GetCertificate	acm-pca:GetCertificate	Read
GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate	acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate	Read
GetCertificateAuthorityCsr	acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCsr	Read
GetPolicy	acm-pca:GetPolicy	Read
ImportCertificateAuthorityCertificate	acm-pca:ImportCertificateAuthorityCertificate	Write
IssueCertificate	acm-pca:IssueCertificate	Write
ListCertificateAuthorities	acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities	List
ListPermissions	acm-pca:ListPermissions	Read
ListTags	acm-pca:ListTags	Read
PutPolicy	acm-pca:PutPolicy	Permissions management, Write
RestoreCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:RestoreCertificateAuthority	Write
RevokeCertificate	acm-pca:RevokeCertificate	Write
TagCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:TagCertificateAuthority	Tagging, Write
UntagCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:UntagCertificateAuthority	Tagging, Write
UpdateCertificateAuthority	acm-pca:UpdateCertificateAuthority	Write

Actions defined by AWS Private Certificate Authority

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
CreateCertificateAuthority	Grants permission to create an AWS Private CA and its associated private key and configuration		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	Write
CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport	Grants permission to create an audit report for an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Write
CreatePermission	Grants permission to create a permission for an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Permissions management, Write
DeleteCertificateAuthority	Grants permission to delete an AWS Private CA and its associated private key and configuration	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Write
DeletePermission	Grants permission to delete a permission for an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Permissions management, Write
DeletePolicy	Grants permission to delete the policy for an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Permissions management, Write
DescribeCertificateAuthority	Grants permission to return a list of the configuration and status fields contained in the specified AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport	Grants permission to return the status and information about an AWS Private CA audit report	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
GetCertificate	Grants permission to retrieve an AWS Private CA certificate and certificate chain for the certificate authority specified by an ARN	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate	Grants permission to retrieve an AWS Private CA certificate and certificate chain for the certificate authority specified by an ARN	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
GetCertificateAuthorityCsr	Grants permission to retrieve an AWS Private CA certificate signing request (CSR) for the certificate-authority specified by an ARN	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
GetPolicy	Grants permission to retrieve the policy on an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
ImportCertificateAuthorityCertificate	Grants permission to import an SSL/TLS certificate into AWS Private CA for use as the CA certificate of an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Write
IssueCertificate	Grants permission to issue an AWS Private CA certificate	certificate-authority*	acm-pca:TemplateArn aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Write
ListCertificateAuthorities	Grants permission to retrieve a list of the AWS Private CA certificate authority ARNs, and a summary of the status of each CA in the calling account			List
ListPermissions	Grants permission to list the permissions that have been applied to the AWS Private CA certificate authority	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
ListTags	Grants permission to list the tags that have been applied to the AWS Private CA certificate authority	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Read
PutPolicy	Grants permission to put a policy on an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Permissions management, Write
RestoreCertificateAuthority	Grants permission to restore an AWS Private CA from the deleted state to the state it was in when deleted	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Write
RevokeCertificate	Grants permission to revoke a certificate issued by an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Write
TagCertificateAuthority	Grants permission to add one or more tags to an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	Tagging, Write
UntagCertificateAuthority	Grants permission to remove one or more tags from an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	Tagging, Write
UpdateCertificateAuthority	Grants permission to update the configuration of an AWS Private CA	certificate-authority*	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Write

Resource types defined by AWS Private Certificate Authority

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
certificate-authority	arn:${Partition}:acm-pca:${Region}:${Account}:certificate-authority/${CertificateAuthorityId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for AWS Private Certificate Authority

AWS Private Certificate Authority defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy.

Condition keys	Description	Type
acm-pca:TemplateArn	Filters access by the arn of the certificate template used in Issue Certificate request	ARN
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags that are passed in the request	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the tag keys that are passed in the request	ArrayOfString

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