kms:CreateCustomKeyStore

Write

kms:CreateCustomKeyStore is a Write access-level action in the kms service. Controls permission to create a custom key store that is backed by an AWS CloudHSM cluster or an external key manager outside of AWS

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.

Dependent actions

To use kms:CreateCustomKeyStore you may also need to grant:

Example IAM policy

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

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowKmsCreateCustomKeyStore",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "kms:CreateCustomKeyStore",
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

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