Policy Elements for Amazon Redshift
The Element Descriptions section of the AWS Identity and Access Management Using IAM guide describes
elements you can use in a policy. For policies that you create for Amazon Redshift, note the following
about specific policy elements:
• Resource – Amazon Redshift does not differentiate among resources for purposes of IAM permissions.
Therefore you must specify a "*" as the value of the Resource element in a policy.
Action – Amazon Redshift supports policies to provide access to individual Amazon Redshift API
actions.The Action element identifies one or more Amazon Redshift actions that are allowed or denied.
For a complete list of Amazon Redshift actions, go to Actions in the Amazon Redshift API Reference.
API LinkAction
AuthorizeClusterSecurityGroupIngressredshift:AuthorizeClusterSecurityGroupIngress
CopyClusterSnapshotredshift:CopyClusterSnapshot
CreateClusterredshift:CreateCluster
CreateClusterParameterGroupredshift:CreateClusterParameterGroup
CreateClusterSecurityGroupredshift:CreateClusterSecurityGroup
CreateClusterSnapshotredshift:CreateClusterSnapshot
CreateClusterSubnetGroupredshift:CreateClusterSubnetGroup
DeleteClusterredshift:DeleteCluster
DeleteClusterParameterGroupredshift:DeleteClusterParameterGroup
DeleteClusterSecurityGroupredshift:DeleteClusterSecurityGroup
DeleteClusterSnapshotredshift:DeleteClusterSnapshot
DeleteClusterSubnetGroupredshift:DeleteClusterSubnetGroup
DescribeClusterParameterGroupsredshift:DescribeClusterParameterGroups
DescribeClusterParametersredshift:DescribeClusterParameters
DescribeClusterSecurityGroupsredshift:DescribeClusterSecurityGroups
DescribeClusterSnapshotsredshift:DescribeClusterSnapshots
DescribeClusterSubnetGroupsredshift:DescribeClusterSubnetGroups
DescribeClusterVersionsredshift:DescribeClusterVersions
DescribeClustersredshift:DescribeClusters
DescribeDefaultClusterParametersredshift:DescribeDefaultClusterParameters
DescribeEventsredshift:DescribeEvents
DescribeOrderableClusterOptionsredshift:DescribeOrderableClusterOptions
DescribeReservedNodeOfferingsredshift:DescribeReservedNodeOfferings
DescribeReservedNodesredshift:DescribeReservedNodes
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Policy Elements for Amazon Redshift