RDS Instance Restore IAM Permissions

To perform RDS instance restore operations, IAM roles and IAM users specified in the restore settings must meet the following requirements:

  1. The backup appliance must be granted permissions to assume the IAM roles. For more information on the requirements for adding IAM roles, see Before You Begin.
  1. The IAM roles must be granted the following permissions:

{

   "Version": "2012-10-17",

   "Statement": [

       {

           "Effect": "Allow",

           "Action": [

               "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",

               "ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",

               "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",

               "ec2:DescribeRegions",

               "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",

               "ec2:DescribeSubnets",

               "ec2:DescribeVpcAttribute",

               "ec2:DescribeVpcs",

               "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",

               "iam:GetContextKeysForPrincipalPolicy",

               "iam:ListAccountAliases",

               "iam:PassRole",

               "iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy",

               "kms:CreateGrant",

               "kms:DescribeKey",

               "kms:GetKeyPolicy",

               "kms:ListAliases",

               "kms:ListKeys",

               "rds:AddTagsToResource",

               "rds:CopyDBClusterSnapshot",

               "rds:CopyDBSnapshot",

               "rds:CreateDbInstance",

               "rds:CreateTenantDatabase",

               "rds:DeleteDBClusterSnapshot",

               "rds:DeleteDBInstance",

               "rds:DeleteDBSnapshot",

               "rds:DeleteDbCluster",

               "rds:DescribeAccountAttributes",

               "rds:DescribeDBClusterSnapshots",

               "rds:DescribeDBClusters",

               "rds:DescribeDBEngineVersions",

               "rds:DescribeDBInstances",

               "rds:DescribeDBParameterGroups",

               "rds:DescribeDBSnapshots",

               "rds:DescribeDBSubnetGroups",

               "rds:DescribeDbClusterParameterGroups",

               "rds:DescribeDbClusterParameters",

               "rds:DescribeOptionGroups",

               "rds:DescribeOrderableDbInstanceOptions",

               "rds:ListTagsForResource",

               "rds:ModifyDBClusterSnapshotAttribute",

               "rds:ModifyDBInstance",

               "rds:ModifyDbCluster",

               "rds:RemoveTagsFromResource",

               "rds:RestoreDBInstanceFromDBSnapshot",

               "rds:RestoreDbClusterFromSnapshot",

               "servicequotas:ListServiceQuotas"

           ],

           "Resource": "*"

       }

   ]

}

To learn how to create IAM roles and assign them the required permissions, see Appendix A. Creating IAM Roles in AWS.

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