Example: Traffic Acquisition using VPC Mirroring

These are the minimum permissions that are required to acquire traffic using VPC mirroring and authenticate using an IAM instance role.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "VisualEditor0",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ec2:CreateTags",
                "ec2:DeleteTags",
                "ec2:AssociateAddress",
                "ec2:DisassociateAddress",
                "ec2:DescribeImages",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
		 "ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
                "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
                "ec2:RunInstances",
                "ec2:TerminateInstances",
                "ec2:RebootInstances",
                "ec2:StartInstances",
                "ec2:StopInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeTrafficMirrorFilters",
                "ec2:DescribeTrafficMirrorSessions",
                "ec2:DescribeTrafficMirrorTargets",
                "ec2:CreateTrafficMirrorTarget",
                "ec2:CreateTrafficMirrorSession",
                "ec2:DeleteTrafficMirrorTarget",
                "ec2:DeleteTrafficMirrorSession",

		"iam:GetPolicyVersion",
                "iam:GetPolicy",
                "iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
                "iam:ListRolePolicies",
                "iam:ListAccountAliases",

                "kms:ListAliases"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

For more information regarding policies and permissions, refer to AWS Documentation.

If you are using inline policy or basic authentication, then you must update the policy with the relevant IAM service. For more information, see GigaVUE-FM Instance Multi Account Support Using Amazon STS.