Adding a custom policy for Elastic Load Balancing

The ECS policies available and selected do not include some permissions that are required when creating an Elastic Load Balancer for an ECS service. We need to add a custom policy to the IAM user so that the IAM user is able to configure an Elastic Load Balancer. The following custom policy adds all the elasticloadbalancing permissions:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement":[{
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": ""elasticloadbalancing:*",
    "Resource": "*"
  }]
}

The custom policy may be added using one of the following options:

• Create a custom policy prior to creating the user
• Add an inline policy after a user has been created

We shall discuss the second option: 

• To add the custom policy as an inline policy, click on the IAM user link for IAM user dvohra (or another user) in the Users table. The IAM user detail gets displayed.
• With the Permissions tab selected, click on Add inline policy, as shown in the following screenshot:

• The Create...