[ aws . iam ]

get-policy-version

Description

Retrieves information about the specified version of the specified managed policy, including the policy document.

Note

Policies returned by this API are URL-encoded compliant with RFC 3986 . You can use a URL decoding method to convert the policy back to plain JSON text. For example, if you use Java, you can use the decode method of the java.net.URLDecoder utility class in the Java SDK. Other languages and SDKs provide similar functionality.

To list the available versions for a policy, use ListPolicyVersions .

This API retrieves information about managed policies. To retrieve information about an inline policy that is embedded in a user, group, or role, use the GetUserPolicy , GetGroupPolicy , or GetRolePolicy API.

For more information about the types of policies, see Managed Policies and Inline Policies in the IAM User Guide .

For more information about managed policy versions, see Versioning for Managed Policies in the IAM User Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  get-policy-version
--policy-arn <value>
--version-id <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options

--policy-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the managed policy that you want information about.

For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces in the AWS General Reference .

--version-id (string)

Identifies the policy version to retrieve.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern ) a string of characters that consists of the lowercase letter ‘v’ followed by one or two digits, and optionally followed by a period ‘.’ and a string of letters and digits.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To retrieve information about the specified version of the specified managed policy

This example returns the policy document for the v2 version of the policy whose ARN is arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/MyManagedPolicy:

aws iam get-policy-version --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/MyPolicy --version-id v2

Output:

{
    "PolicyVersion": {
        "CreateDate": "2015-06-17T19:23;32Z",
        "VersionId": "v2",
        "Document": {
                      "Version": "2012-10-17",
                      "Statement": [
                              {
                                      "Action": "iam:*",
                                      "Resource": "*",
                                      "Effect": "Allow"
                              }
                      ]
                }
        "IsDefaultVersion": "false"
    }
}

For more information, see Overview of IAM Policies in the Using IAM guide.

Output

PolicyVersion -> (structure)

A structure containing details about the policy version.

Document -> (string)

The policy document.

The policy document is returned in the response to the GetPolicyVersion and GetAccountAuthorizationDetails operations. It is not returned in the response to the CreatePolicyVersion or ListPolicyVersions operations.

The policy document returned in this structure is URL-encoded compliant with RFC 3986 . You can use a URL decoding method to convert the policy back to plain JSON text. For example, if you use Java, you can use the decode method of the java.net.URLDecoder utility class in the Java SDK. Other languages and SDKs provide similar functionality.

VersionId -> (string)

The identifier for the policy version.

Policy version identifiers always begin with v (always lowercase). When a policy is created, the first policy version is v1 .

IsDefaultVersion -> (boolean)

Specifies whether the policy version is set as the policy’s default version.

CreateDate -> (timestamp)

The date and time, in ISO 8601 date-time format , when the policy version was created.