acm:DescribeCertificate

Read

acm:DescribeCertificate is a Read access-level action in the acm service. Grants permission to retreive a certificates and its metadata

Resource types

ARNs that acm:DescribeCertificate can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

arn:${Partition}:acm:${Region}:${Account}:certificate/${CertificateId}
certificate

Condition keys

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

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by tag key-value pairs attached to the resource

Example IAM policy

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

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

Related actions in acm

acm:AddTagsToCertificate Tagging acm:CreateAcmeDomainValidation Write acm:CreateAcmeEndpoint Write acm:CreateAcmeExternalAccountBinding Write acm:DeleteAcmeDomainValidation Write acm:DeleteAcmeEndpoint Write acm:DeleteAcmeExternalAccountBinding Write acm:DeleteCertificate Write acm:DescribeAcmeAccount Read acm:DescribeAcmeDomainValidation Read acm:DescribeAcmeEndpoint Read acm:DescribeAcmeExternalAccountBinding Read

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