kafka:DescribeTopic

Read

kafka:DescribeTopic is a Read access-level action in the kafka service. Grants permission to return metadata details about a specific Kafka topic

Resource types

ARNs that kafka:DescribeTopic can be scoped to in an IAM policy.

arn:${Partition}:kafka:${Region}:${Account}:topic/${ClusterName}/${ClusterUuid}/${TopicName}

topic

Condition keys

No condition keys are documented for this action.

Dependent actions

To use kafka:DescribeTopic you may also need to grant:

kafka-cluster:Connect on topic
kafka-cluster:DescribeTopic on topic
kafka-cluster:DescribeTopicDynamicConfiguration on topic

Example IAM policy

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

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowKafkaDescribeTopic",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kafka:DescribeTopic",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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