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How to configure IAM policy for giving the read-only access to specific VPC

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We can give or restrict different permissions over VPC using default IAM policies. But this is applicable for the whole list of VPC's in the AWS account.

There are certain cases where we need to give the read-only permissions only to specific VPC.

In such a situation we can create a new IAM policy as follows.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
                "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
                "ec2:DescribeCarrierGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeClassicLinkInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeCustomerGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",
                "ec2:DescribeEgressOnlyInternetGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeFlowLogs",
                "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeLocalGatewayRouteTables",
                "ec2:DescribeLocalGatewayRouteTableVpcAssociations",
                "ec2:DescribeMovingAddresses",
                "ec2:DescribeNatGateways",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkAcls",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfacePermissions",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
                "ec2:DescribePrefixLists",
                "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupReferences",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroupRules",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeStaleSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeTags",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLink",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcClassicLinkDnsSupport",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpoints",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointConnectionNotifications",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointConnections",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServiceConfigurations",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServicePermissions",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServices",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcPeeringConnections",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
                "ec2:DescribeVpnConnections",
                "ec2:DescribeVpnGateways"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:REGION:AWS-ID:vpc/VPC-ID"
        }
    ]
}

Where REGION, AWS-ID and VPC-ID need to be replaced with the AWS region, AWS accound id and corresponding VPC id.

Please note that this custom policy will work ony if the IAM user also have at-least read-only access over all EC2 resources.

That's all…