SecurityPolicy.md

Security policy for AWS Watchman

Permission necessary for AWS Watchman to do all the things.

• Create An IAM user for Watchman
• Allow access with key and secret. Take note of those, you will use them on the commandline or in a profile
• Add the following as inline policies to the user (You may want to replace "Resource": [ "*" ] with something more specific to the account).

The values you will have to subsitute in are:

• <region> The AWS region, eg. eu-west1
• <watchman bucket> The name of the S3 bucket to use. The bucket must already exist.
• <account-id> The id of your AWS account.

CanDo_CloudwatchAlarms

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"cloudwatch:PutMetricAlarm",
				"cloudwatch:DeleteAlarms",
				"cloudwatch:DescribeAlarms",
				"cloudwatch:GetMetricData",
				"cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics",
				"cloudwatch:ListMetrics"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"*"
			]
		}
	]
}

CanDo_SNS

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"sns:ListTopics",
				"sns:CreateTopic",
				"sns:ListSubscriptionsByTopic",
				"sns:Subscribe",
				"sns:DeleteTopic",
				"sns:GetTopicAttributes", 
				"sns:SetTopicAttributes",
				"sns:Subscribe",
				"sns:Unsubscribe"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:sns:<region>:<account-id>:*"
			]
		}
	]
}

CanDo_CloudformationAlarmDeployment

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"cloudformation:ListStacks",
				"cloudformation:DescribeStacks",
				"cloudformation:CreateStack"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"*"
			]
		},
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"cloudformation:UpdateStack"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:cloudformation:<region>:<account-id>:stack/Watchman*"
			]
		},
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"s3:PutObject",
				"s3:GetObject"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"arn:aws:s3:::<watchman bucket>/*"
			]
		}
	]
}

CanDo_DescribeResources

{
	"Version": "2012-10-17",
	"Statement": [
		{
			"Effect": "Allow",
			"Action": [
				"autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
				"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
				"rds:DescribeDBInstances",
				"lambda:ListFunctions",
				"sqs:GetQueueAttributes",
				"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
				"dynamodb:DescribeTable",
				"dynamodb:ListTables"
			],
			"Resource": [
				"*"
			]
		}
	]
}