attach-role-policy

Attaches the specified managed policy to the specified IAM role. When you attach a managed policy to a role, the managed policy becomes part of the role’s permission (access) policy.

Note

You cannot use a managed policy as the role’s trust policy. The role’s trust policy is created at the same time as the role, using CreateRole.

Use this API to attach a managed policy to a role. To embed an inline policy in a role, use PutRolePolicy. For more information about policies, refer to Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the IAM User Guide.

Refer to AWS help for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

attach-role-policy
  --role-name <value>
  --policy-arn <value>

Options

--role-name (string)

The name (friendly name, not ARN) of the role to attach the policy to.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _, +, =, ,, ., @, and -.

--policy-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM policy you want to attach.

For more information about ARNs, refer to Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces in the AWS General Reference.

Examples

To attach a managed policy to an IAM role

The following attach-role-policy command attaches the AWS managed policy named ReadOnlyAccess to the IAM role named ReadOnlyRole

aws iam attach-role-policy --policy-arn \
arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess --role-name ReadOnlyRole

For more information, refer to Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the Using IAM guide.

Output

None