ec2:DescribeStaleSecurityGroups

List

ec2:DescribeStaleSecurityGroups is a List access-level action in the ec2 service. Grants permission to describe the stale security group rules for security groups in a specified VPC

Resource types

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

Condition keys

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

ec2:Region String

Filters access by the name of the AWS Region

Example IAM policy

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

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowEc2DescribeStaleSecurityGroups",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ec2:DescribeStaleSecurityGroups",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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