cognito-identity:DescribeIdentityPool

Read

cognito-identity:DescribeIdentityPool is a Read access-level action in the cognito-identity service. Grants permission to get details about a particular identity pool, including the pool name, ID description, creation date, and current number of users

Resource types

ARNs that cognito-identity:DescribeIdentityPool can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

arn:${Partition}:cognito-identity:${Region}:${Account}:identitypool/${IdentityPoolId}
identitypool

Condition keys

Keys you can use in the Condition block of a policy that grants cognito-identity:DescribeIdentityPool.

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

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

Example IAM policy

A minimal policy that allows cognito-identity:DescribeIdentityPool. Replace "Resource": "*" with a specific ARN to follow least privilege.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowCognitoidentityDescribeIdentityPool",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "cognito-identity:DescribeIdentityPool",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Related actions in cognito-identity

cognito-identity:CreateIdentityPool Write cognito-identity:DeleteIdentities Write cognito-identity:DeleteIdentityPool Write cognito-identity:DescribeIdentity Read cognito-identity:GetCredentialsForIdentity Read cognito-identity:GetId Write cognito-identity:GetIdentityPoolAnalytics Read cognito-identity:GetIdentityPoolDailyAnalytics Read cognito-identity:GetIdentityPoolRoles Read cognito-identity:GetIdentityProviderDailyAnalytics Read cognito-identity:GetOpenIdToken Read cognito-identity:GetOpenIdTokenForDeveloperIdentity Read

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