ArnEquals

compares an ARN in a request to a list of ARN patterns in your policy. The policy values can include asterisks (*) to match multiple characters and question marks (?) to match a single character within an ARN segement. Wildcards cannot be used to span ARN segment, so the partition, service, region, account, and resource must all be present in your policy value, even if they are all wildcards. The comparison is case sensitive.

To match a request, the context key must exist in the request and must match at least one of the ARN patterns in your policy.

You can use policy variables in the value of this operator.

Warning

In spite of the name difference, ArnEquals behaves exactly the same as ArnLike. Switch to ArnLike so people don't ask later what in the world you were thinking.

ArnEquals in an Allow Statement

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Policy Condition	Request Context	Result
"ArnEquals": { "aws:PrincipalArn": [ "arn:aws:iam:::role/Admin", "arn:aws:iam:::role/Manager" ] }	`aws:PrincipalArn: null`	− Not Allowed Statement does not apply
"ArnEquals": { "aws:PrincipalArn": [ "arn:aws:iam:::role/Admin", "arn:aws:iam:::role/Manager" ] }	`aws:PrincipalArn: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/AdminRole`	✓ Allowed Assuming no explicit Deny elsewhere
"ArnEquals": { "aws:PrincipalArn": [ "arn:aws:iam:::role/Admin", "arn:aws:iam:::role/Manager" ] }	`aws:PrincipalArn: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/User`	− Not Allowed Statement does not apply

ArnEquals in a Deny Statement

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Policy Condition Request Context Result

Policy Condition	Request Context	Result
"ArnEquals": { "aws:PrincipalArn": [ "arn:aws:iam:::role/Admin", "arn:aws:iam:::role/Manager" ] }	`aws:PrincipalArn: null`	− Not Denied May be allowed by another statement
"ArnEquals": { "aws:PrincipalArn": [ "arn:aws:iam:::role/Admin", "arn:aws:iam:::role/Manager" ] }	`aws:PrincipalArn: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/AdminRole`	✕ Denied
"ArnEquals": { "aws:PrincipalArn": [ "arn:aws:iam:::role/Admin", "arn:aws:iam:::role/Manager" ] }	`aws:PrincipalArn: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/User`	− Not Denied May be allowed by another statement

"ArnEquals": {
  "aws:PrincipalArn": [
    "arn:aws:iam::*:role/Admin*",
    "arn:aws:iam::*:role/Manager*"
  ]
}

aws:PrincipalArn: null

− Not Denied May be allowed by another statement

"ArnEquals": {
  "aws:PrincipalArn": [
    "arn:aws:iam::*:role/Admin*",
    "arn:aws:iam::*:role/Manager*"
  ]
}

aws:PrincipalArn: 
    arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/AdminRole

✕ Denied

"ArnEquals": {
  "aws:PrincipalArn": [
    "arn:aws:iam::*:role/Admin*",
    "arn:aws:iam::*:role/Manager*"
  ]
}

aws:PrincipalArn: 
    arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/User

− Not Denied May be allowed by another statement

ArnEquals

ArnEquals in an Allow Statement

ArnEquals in a Deny Statement

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