Customer-Managed VPC

Use this stripped down, minimal IAM Policy if you have pre-existing AWS resources that you need to use for the Amazon EKS Cluster. With this policy example, the customer is expected to create and provide references to the following:

  • VPCs
  • Subnets
  • Route Table
  • Internet Gateway
  • NatGateway
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:CreateInstanceProfile",
                "iam:CreateOpenIDConnectProvider",
                "iam:DeleteOpenIDConnectProvider",
                "iam:GetOpenIDConnectProvider",
                "iam:ListOpenIDConnectProviderTags",
                "iam:TagOpenIDConnectProvider",
                "iam:DeleteInstanceProfile",
                "iam:GetRole",
                "iam:GetInstanceProfile",
                "iam:RemoveRoleFromInstanceProfile",
                "iam:CreateRole",
                "iam:DeleteRole",
                "iam:AttachRolePolicy",
                "iam:PutRolePolicy",
                "iam:ListInstanceProfiles",
                "iam:AddRoleToInstanceProfile",
                "iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole",
                "iam:PassRole",
                "iam:DetachRolePolicy",
                "iam:DeleteRolePolicy",
                "iam:GetRolePolicy",
                "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
                "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
                "iam:TagRole",
                "iam:ListRoleTags",
                "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
                "iam:ListPolicyVersions",
                "iam:GetPolicy",
                "iam:GetPolicyVersion"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "cloudformation:GetTemplate",
                "cloudformation:ListStacks",
                "cloudformation:ListStackResources",
                "cloudformation:ListStackSets",
                "cloudformation:ListChangeSets",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackResources",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents",
                "cloudformation:DescribeChangeSet",
                "cloudformation:DescribeStackSet",
                "cloudformation:DeleteStack",
                "cloudformation:DeleteChangeSet",
                "cloudformation:DeleteStackSet",
                "cloudformation:CreateStackSet",
                "cloudformation:UpdateStackSet",
                "cloudformation:CreateChangeSet",
                "cloudformation:ExecuteChangeSet",
                "cloudformation:CreateStack",
                "cloudformation:UpdateStack"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "eks:AssociateEncryptionConfig",
                "eks:CreatePodIdentityAssociation",
                "eks:DescribePodIdentityAssociation",
                "eks:DeletePodIdentityAssociation",
                "eks:UpdatePodIdentityAssociation",
                "eks:CreateAddon",
                "eks:CreateCluster",
                "eks:CreateFargateProfile",
                "eks:DescribeNodegroup",
                "eks:DescribeCluster",
                "eks:DescribeAddon",
                "eks:DescribeAddonConfiguration",
                "eks:DescribeAddonVersions",
                "eks:DescribeFargateProfile",
                "eks:DescribeUpdate",
                "eks:ListUpdates",
                "eks:UpdateClusterVersion",
                "eks:UpdateClusterConfig",
                "eks:ListClusters",
                "eks:ListNodegroups",
                "eks:ListAddons",
                "eks:ListFargateProfiles",
                "eks:ListTagsForResource",
                "eks:CreateNodegroup",
                "eks:TagResource",
                "eks:AccessKubernetesApi",
                "eks:DeleteCluster",
                "eks:UntagResource",
                "eks:UpdateAddon",
                "eks:UpdateNodegroupConfig",
                "eks:UpdateNodegroupVersion",
                "eks:DeleteAddon",
                "eks:DeleteFargateProfile",
                "eks:DeleteNodegroup"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
                "autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
                "autoscaling:DescribeScheduledActions",
                "autoscaling:DescribeScalingActivities",
                "autoscaling:TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup",
                "autoscaling:SetDesiredCapacity",
                "autoscaling:CreateLaunchConfiguration",
                "autoscaling:DeleteLaunchConfiguration",
                "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
                "autoscaling:DeleteAutoScalingGroup",
                "autoscaling:CreateAutoScalingGroup",
                "autoscaling:SuspendProcesses",
                "autoscaling:CreateOrUpdateTags",
                "autoscaling:DeleteTags"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DeleteTags",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
                "ec2:AssociateRouteTable",
                "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
                "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupEgress",
                "ec2:ReleaseAddress",
                "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress",
                "ec2:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:CreateTags",
                "ec2:AllocateAddress",
                "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupRules",
                "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
                "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
                "ec2:DescribeImages",
                "ec2:describeAddresses",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
                "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate",
                "ec2:CreateLaunchTemplateVersion",
                "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplates",
                "ec2:RunInstances",
                "ec2:DeleteLaunchTemplate",
                "ec2:DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions",
                "ec2:DescribeImageAttribute",
                "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
                "ec2:ImportKeyPair",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "ssm:GetParameter",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:ssm:*:*:parameter/*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "kms:DescribeKey",
                "kms:CreateGrant"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "logs:DeleteRetentionPolicy",
                "logs:PutRetentionPolicy"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}