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An '''Amazon Resource Name''' (ARN) is a text string used by Amazon Web Services to uniquely identify an object such as a database table, function, or access policy. They are used throughout the AWS services to associate things with one another. | An '''Amazon Resource Name''' (ARN) is a text string used by Amazon Web Services to uniquely identify an object such as a database table, function, or access policy. They are used throughout the AWS services to associate things with one another. | ||
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| + | They have the general format <code>partition:service:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id</code>, with some of these items being optional, and additional path info sometimes (which can also have wildcards), for instance <code>arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Development/product_1234/*</code>. | ||
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Revision as of 02:30, 27 October 2022
An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is a text string used by Amazon Web Services to uniquely identify an object such as a database table, function, or access policy. They are used throughout the AWS services to associate things with one another.
They have the general format partition:service:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id, with some of these items being optional, and additional path info sometimes (which can also have wildcards), for instance arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Development/product_1234/*.
