ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress

Write

ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress is a Write access-level action in the ec2 service. Grants permission to add one or more inbound rules to a VPC security group. Policies using the security-group-rule resource-level permission are only enforced when the API request includes TagSpecifications

Resource types

ARNs that ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

arn:${Partition}:ec2:${Region}:${Account}:security-group/${SecurityGroupId}
security-group
arn:${Partition}:ec2:${Region}:${Account}:security-group-rule/${SecurityGroupRuleId}
security-group-rule

Condition keys

Keys you can use in the Condition block of a policy that grants ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress.

aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by a tag key and value pair that is allowed in the request

aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by a tag key and value pair of a resource

aws:TagKeys ArrayOfString

Filters access by a list of tag keys that are allowed in the request

ec2:Region String

Filters access by the name of the AWS Region

ec2:ResourceTag/${TagKey} String

Filters access by a tag key and value pair of a resource

ec2:SecurityGroupID String

Filters access by the ID of a security group

ec2:IsLaunchTemplateResource Bool

Filters access by whether users are able to override resources that are specified in the launch template

ec2:LaunchTemplate ARN

Filters access by the ARN of a launch template

ec2:Vpc ARN

Filters access by the ARN of the VPC

Dependent actions

To use ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress you may also need to grant:

Example IAM policy

A minimal policy that allows ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress. Replace "Resource": "*" with a specific ARN to follow least privilege.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowEc2AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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