CloudWatchAPIKeyAccess

Description: Grants permissions to call CloudWatch using API key authentication.

CloudWatchAPIKeyAccess is an AWS managed policy.

Using this policy

You can attach CloudWatchAPIKeyAccess to your users, groups, and roles.

Policy details

Policy version

Policy version: v2 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request.

JSON policy document

{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "CloudWatchMetricsAPIs",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "cloudwatch:CallWithBearerToken",
        "cloudwatch:PutMetricData"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "KMSDecryptForCMKDatasets",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:kms:*:*:key/*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:ViaService" : "cloudwatch.*.amazonaws.com",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:cloudwatch:arn" : "arn:aws:cloudwatch:*:*:dataset/*"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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