autoscaling:DescribePolicies

List

autoscaling:DescribePolicies is a List access-level action in the autoscaling service. Grants permission to describe the policies for the specified Auto Scaling group

Resource types

This action does not support resource-level permissions; use "Resource": "*" in your policy.

Condition keys

No condition keys are documented for this action.

Example IAM policy

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

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAutoscalingDescribePolicies",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "autoscaling:DescribePolicies",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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