acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority

Read

acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority is a Read access-level action in the acm-pca service. Grants permission to return a list of the configuration and status fields contained in the specified AWS Private CA

Resource types

ARNs that acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

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

certificate-authority

Condition keys

Keys you can use in the Condition block of a policy that grants acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority.

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by the tags associated with the resource

Example IAM policy

A minimal policy that allows acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority. Replace "Resource": "*" with a specific ARN to follow least privilege.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAcmpcaDescribeCertificateAuthority",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthority",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Related actions in acm-pca

acm-pca:CreateCertificateAuthority Write acm-pca:CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport Write acm-pca:CreatePermission Permissions management acm-pca:DeleteCertificateAuthority Write acm-pca:DeletePermission Permissions management acm-pca:DeletePolicy Permissions management acm-pca:DescribeCertificateAuthorityAuditReport Read acm-pca:GetCertificate Read acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCertificate Read acm-pca:GetCertificateAuthorityCsr Read acm-pca:GetPolicy Read acm-pca:ImportCertificateAuthorityCertificate Write

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