# AWSCertificateManagerReadOnly
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**Description**: Provides read only access to AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

`AWSCertificateManagerReadOnly` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AWSCertificateManagerReadOnly` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: January 21, 2016, 17:07 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** August 13, 2026, 18:07 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSCertificateManagerReadOnly`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v7 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : {
    "Effect" : "Allow",
    "Action" : [
      "acm:DescribeCertificate",
      "acm:ListCertificates",
      "acm:SearchCertificates",
      "acm:GetCertificate",
      "acm:ListTagsForCertificate",
      "acm:GetAccountConfiguration",
      "acm:DescribeAcmeAccount",
      "acm:DescribeAcmeDomainValidation",
      "acm:DescribeAcmeEndpoint",
      "acm:DescribeAcmeExternalAccountBinding",
      "acm:ListAcmeAccounts",
      "acm:ListAcmeDomainValidations",
      "acm:ListAcmeEndpoints",
      "acm:ListAcmeExternalAccountBindings",
      "acm:ListTagsForResource",
      "acm:ListCertificateDomainValidations"
    ],
    "Resource" : "*"
  }
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)