IAM / networking / elasticloadbalancing

AWS Elastic Load Balancing (IAM)

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AWSelasticloadbalancingnetworking

Distributes incoming application or network traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses, in multiple Availability Zones.

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Permissions
Actions in this service
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules
elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags
Policy
Minimal privilege example

Copy-paste least-privilege policy statement — not yet harness-verified.

{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeRules", "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTags" ], "Resource": "*" } ] }
SDK mapping
Method → permission

SDK method mapping (e.g. boto3.get_object() → s3:GetObject) is not yet collected.

Footguns
Known gotchas
Avoid elasticloadbalancing:* — grants full control including creating, modifying, and deleting load balancers and their components.
Avoid elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancer — allows deletion of load balancers, causing service disruption.
Resources
docshttps://servicereference.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/elasticloadbalancing/elasticloadbalancing.json ↗