FLR Worker IAM Role Permissions
You can instruct Veeam Backup for AWS to launch worker instances in production accounts when performing file-level recovery operations for EC2 instances. To do that, enable worker deployment in the production account in the file-level recovery settings, and specify an IAM role that will be used to launch worker instances, and then attached to these instances and used by Veeam Backup for AWS to communicate with them.
IAM Role Requirements and Permissions
To allow Veeam Backup for AWS to launch worker instances, attach IAM roles to the instances and further to communicate with these instances, IAM roles specified in the file-level recovery settings must meet the following requirements:
- The IAM roles must be included at least in one instance profile. For more information on instance profiles, see AWS Documentation.
- The backup appliance must be granted permissions to assume the IAM roles.
To allow the backup appliance to assume an IAM role, configure trust relationships for the role and add the following statement to the trust policy.
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "sts:AssumeRole", "Principal": { "AWS": "<Role ARN>" } } ] } |
Where <Role ARN> is the ARN either of the Impersonation IAM role attached to the backup appliance or of an AWS account to which the backup appliance belongs.
To learn how to configure trust relationships for a role and how to find the ARN of the Impersonation IAM role, see Before You Begin.
- The Amazon EC2 service must be granted permissions to assume the IAM roles.
To allow the Amazon EC2 service to assume an IAM role, configure trust relationships for the role and add the following statement to the trust policy.
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "sts:AssumeRole", "Principal": { "Service": "ec2.amazonaws.com" } } ] } |
To learn how to configure trust relationships, see Before You Begin.
- The IAM roles must be granted the following permissions:
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "ec2:AttachNetworkInterface", "ec2:AttachVolume", "ec2:CopySnapshot", "ec2:CreateKeyPair", "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface", "ec2:CreateSnapshot", "ec2:CreateTags", "ec2:CreateVolume", "ec2:DeleteKeyPair", "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface", "ec2:DeleteSnapshot", "ec2:DeleteVolume", "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes", "ec2:DescribeAddresses", "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones", "ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute", "ec2:DescribeInstances", "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs", "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces", "ec2:DescribeRegions", "ec2:DescribeRouteTables", "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups", "ec2:DescribeSnapshotAttribute", "ec2:DescribeSnapshots", "ec2:DescribeSubnets", "ec2:DescribeVolumeAttribute", "ec2:DescribeVolumes", "ec2:DescribeVpcs", "ec2:DetachVolume", "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute", "ec2:RunInstances", "ec2:StartInstances", "ec2:StopInstances", "ec2:TerminateInstances", "ec2messages:AcknowledgeMessage", "ec2messages:DeleteMessage", "ec2messages:FailMessage", "ec2messages:GetEndpoint", "ec2messages:GetMessages", "ec2messages:SendReply", "iam:GetContextKeysForPrincipalPolicy", "iam:GetRole", "iam:ListAccountAliases", "iam:ListInstanceProfilesForRole", "iam:PassRole", "iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy", "kms:CreateGrant", "kms:DescribeKey", "kms:GetKeyPolicy", "kms:ListAliases", "kms:ListKeys", "kms:ReEncryptFrom", "kms:ReEncryptTo", "sqs:CreateQueue", "sqs:DeleteMessage", "sqs:DeleteQueue", "sqs:ListQueues", "sqs:ReceiveMessage", "sqs:SendMessage", "ssm:DescribeAssociation", "ssm:DescribeDocument", "ssm:GetCommandInvocation", "ssm:GetDeployablePatchSnapshotForInstance", "ssm:GetDocument", "ssm:GetManifest", "ssm:GetParameter", "ssm:GetParameters", "ssm:ListAssociations", "ssm:ListInstanceAssociations", "ssm:PutComplianceItems", "ssm:PutConfigurePackageResult", "ssm:PutInventory", "ssm:SendCommand", "ssm:UpdateAssociationStatus", "ssm:UpdateInstanceAssociationStatus", "ssm:UpdateInstanceInformation", "ssmmessages:CreateControlChannel", "ssmmessages:CreateDataChannel", "ssmmessages:OpenControlChannel", "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel" ], "Resource": "*" } ] } |
To learn how to create IAM roles and assign them the required permissions, see Appendix A. Creating IAM Roles in AWS.