AWS IAM role chaining doesn't grant the policy from the child role

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I have a policy called FooPol that attached to the user as the policy shown below,

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::000000000000:role/fooRole",
            "Effect": "Allow"
        }
    ]
}

The fooRole attached to a policy called BarPol as the policy shown below,

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::000000000000:role/barRole",
            "Effect": "Allow"
        }
    ]
}

the barRole itself can perform cloudformation:DescribeStacks. Somehow the access to perform cloudformation:DescribeStacks is denied for role fooRole, but it does authorized when I attach the BarPol directly to the user. why is that?

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1 Answers

This is expected. When a user assumes a role, the user loses all of its permissions and inherits only the permissions that the assumed role has.

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