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AWS Permissions
Antimetal only collects metadata about your infrastructure and never attempts to read sensitive information from the underlying services. We can’t touch workloads, introspect on server state, or terminate/stop instances.
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{
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"Version": "2012-10-17",
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"Statement": [
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{
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"Action": [
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"application-autoscaling:Describe*",
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"autoscaling:Describe*",
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"ce:Describe*",
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"ce:Get*",
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"ce:List*",
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"cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
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"ec2:Describe*",
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"ec2:AcceptReservedInstancesExchangeQuote",
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"ec2:CancelReservedInstancesListing",
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"ec2:CreateReservedInstancesListing",
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"ec2:DeleteQueuedReservedInstances",
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"ec2:ModifyReservedInstances",
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"ec2:PurchaseHostReservation",
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"ec2:PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering",
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"rds:Describe*",
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"rds:List*",
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"rds:PurchaseReservedDbInstancesOffering",
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"elasticache:List*",
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"elasticache:Describe*",
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"elasticache:PurchaseReservedCacheNodesOffering",
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"es:Describe*",
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"es:List*",
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"es:PurchaseReservedInstanceOffering",
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"organizations:Describe*",
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"organizations:List*",
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"pricing:DescribeServices",
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"pricing:GetAttributeValues",
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"pricing:GetProducts",
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"savingsplans:Describe*",
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"savingsplans:List*",
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"servicequotas:Get*",
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"servicequotas:List*",
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"support:*"
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],
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"Effect": "Allow",
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"Resource": "*"
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}
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]
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}
Below is a list of AWS permissions and a brief description of what each permission does.
Note: We have built-in safeguards into our system so that we can only use write permissions after customers have approved savings or turned on autopilot.
Permission | Brief Description |
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"application-autoscaling:Describe*" | Determine EC2-related application autoscaling behavior and policies (for services like ECS and SageMaker) to make recommendation decisions. |
"autoscaling:Describe*" | Determine application EC2 autoscaling behavior and policies to make recommendation decisions. |
"aws-portal:ViewBilling" | Allows viewing billing information in the AWS portal |
"aws-portal:ViewUsage" | Allows viewing usage information in the AWS portal |
"ce:Describe/Get/List*" | Fetch historical spending data; list existing savings infrastructure across accounts (within an organization); and collect utilization information for on-demand instances, reserved instances, and savings plans. |
"cloudwatch:GetMetricData" | Get per-instance metric data to make right- sizing recommendations and measure instance utilization. |
"ec2:Describe*" | Fetch and store data related to EC2 on- demand and reserved instances. In particular, stores instance type, platform, tenancy, region, and how long instance has been on. |
"ec2:AcceptReservedInstancesExchangeQuote" | Allows accepting exchange quotes for Reserved Instances in EC2 |
"ec2:CancelReservedInstancesListing" | Allows canceling Reserved Instances listings in EC2 |
"ec2:CreateReservedInstancesListing" | Allows creating Reserved Instances listings in EC2 |
"ec2:DeleteQueuedReservedInstances" | Allows deleting queued Reserved Instances in EC2 |
"ec2:ModifyReservedInstances" | Allows modifying Reserved Instances in EC2 |
"ec2:PurchaseHostReservation" | Allows purchasing host reservations in EC2 |
"ec2:PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering" | Allows purchasing Reserved Instances offerings in EC2 |
"rds:Describe/List" | Fetch and store data related to RDS on-demand and reserved instances. In particular, stores instance type, engine, multi-AZ, region, and how long instance has been on. |
"rds:PurchaseReservedDbInstancesOffering" | Allows purchasing of RDS Reserved Instances |
"elasticache:Describe/List" | Fetch and store data related to ElastiCache on-demand and reserved instances. |
"elasticache:PurchaseReservedCacheNodesOffering" | Allows purchasing of ElastiCache on-demand and reserved instances. |
"es:Describe/List" | Fetch and store data related to ElasticSearch and OpenSearch on-demand and reserved instances. |
"es:PurchaseReservedInstanceOffering" | Allows purchasing of ElasticSearch and OpenSearch on-demand and reserved instances. |
"organizations:Describe/List" | See organization information to reconcile savings and savings opportunities for users with multi-account organizations. |
"pricing:DescribeServices" | Allows describing services related to pricing |
"pricing:GetAttributeValues" | Allows getting attribute values related to pricing |
"pricing:GetProducts" | Allows getting products related to pricing |
"savingsplans:Describe/List" | Fetch and store type and spend commitment data for Compute and EC2 savings plans. |
"servicequotas:Get/List*" | Determine service quota limits for the number of reserved instances that can be purchased in a single month. |
servicequotas:RequestServiceQuotaIncrease | Request a service quota increase. The only service quota Antimetal currently requests an increase for is the number of reserved instances that can be purchased per month. |
"support:*" | Resolve support cases related to service quota increases. Antimetal only touches support cases that it created via a RequestServiceQuotaIncrease call. |
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