AWS Permissions

James Burke
James Burke

Please see below for the minimum required permissions for the AWS IAM user to setup your API integration in Backup Radar

Service  Permissions Note
AWS Backup ListBackupPlans
ListBackupJobs
ListBackupVaults
for all services
EC2 DescribeInstances
DescribeVolumes
DescribeSnapshots
only for EBS or Storage Gateway backups
EFS DescribeFileSystems
DescribeBackups
DescribeSnapshots
only for EFS backups
  DescribeFileSystems  
FSx DescribeFileSystems
DescribeBackups
DescribeSnapshots
only for FSx backups
RDS

DescribeDBClusterSnapshots

DescribeDBSnapshots

only for RDS, DocumentDB, Neptune and Aurora backups
Storage Gateway ListGateways
ListVolumes
only for EBS or Storage Gateway backups
CloudFormation DescribeStacks only for CloudFormation backups
Redshift DescribeClusterSnapshots only for Redshift backups

 

If you would prefer to use the JSON permissions to assign these to your IAM user, please see the below JSON file. 

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