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AWS policies/permissions for CloudWatch driver

Solved901 views6th June 2023AWS CloudWatch
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Ruben Vandepitte [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]2.32K 1st June 2023 0 Comments

Hi,

What kind of AWS policies/permissions are needed in order to set up communication with our CloudWatch driver through the  access key/secret key method?

Thanks!

Ruben Vandepitte [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 6th June 2023

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Srikanth Mandava [SLC] [DevOps Advocate]912 Posted 6th June 2023 0 Comments

Ruben,

You can use the default IAM profiles that AWS provides for this purpose, i.e. CloudWatchFullAccess or CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess. Read only access should be sufficient for the purpose of our CloudWatch driver. Following is the documentation for these profiles.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-managed-policy/latest/reference/CloudWatchFullAccess.html

However, if you are looking for a custom policy with minimal permissions to configure for this role, then you can limit it to the following methods only.

  • cloudwatch:ListMetrics
  • cloudwatch:GetMetricData

You can use the tool provided by AWS for generating the policy, i.e. http://awspolicygen.s3.amazonaws.com/policygen.html .

Hope it helps.

Thanks.

Ruben Vandepitte [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 6th June 2023
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