AWS Storage Gateway (IAM)

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AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

Common permissions

storagegateway:ListGatewaysstoragegateway:DescribeCachestoragegateway:ListVolumesstoragegateway:ListTapesstoragegateway:DescribeTapesstoragegateway:CreateSnapshotstoragegateway:ListFileSharesstoragegateway:DescribeNFSFileShares

Least-privilege example

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "storagegateway:ListGateways",
        "storagegateway:DescribeCache",
        "storagegateway:ListVolumes",
        "storagegateway:ListTapes",
        "storagegateway:DescribeTapes",
        "storagegateway:CreateSnapshot",
        "storagegateway:ListFileShares",
        "storagegateway:DescribeNFSFileShares"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Warnings

Avoid storagegateway:* — grants full control including delete and modify operations.
Avoid storagegateway:DeleteVolume — can permanently delete volumes.

Resources

AWS referenceservicereference.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/storagegateway/storagegateway.json ↗

API

full doc /v1/iam/storagegateway