How AWS EKS is able to create an EC2 Auto Scaling Group if that action isn't allowed by the attached role?

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When creating EKS cluster I attached a role to EKS which was required. The role I created using official documentation. To that role only AmazonEKSClusterPolicy policy is attached through which I guess creating EC2 Auto Scaling Group(action: CreateAutoScalingGroup) is not allowed, but still EKS is able to create EC2 Auto Scaling Group when I create Node Group.

Question: So how EKS is able to create an EC2 Auto Scaling Group if the role doesn't allow it?

JSON settings of AmazonEKSClusterPolicy policy:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
                "autoscaling:UpdateAutoScalingGroup",
                "ec2:AttachVolume",
                "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:CreateRoute",
                "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:CreateTags",
                "ec2:CreateVolume",
                "ec2:DeleteRoute",
                "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup",
                "ec2:DeleteVolume",
                "ec2:DescribeInstances",
                "ec2:DescribeRouteTables",
                "ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups",
                "ec2:DescribeSubnets",
                "ec2:DescribeVolumes",
                "ec2:DescribeVolumesModifications",
                "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
                "ec2:DescribeDhcpOptions",
                "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
                "ec2:DetachVolume",
                "ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute",
                "ec2:ModifyVolume",
                "ec2:RevokeSecurityGroupIngress",
                "ec2:DescribeAccountAttributes",
                "ec2:DescribeAddresses",
                "ec2:DescribeInternetGateways",
                "elasticloadbalancing:AddTags",
                "elasticloadbalancing:ApplySecurityGroupsToLoadBalancer",
                "elasticloadbalancing:AttachLoadBalancerToSubnets",
                "elasticloadbalancing:ConfigureHealthCheck",
                "elasticloadbalancing:CreateListener",
                "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancer",
                "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancerListeners",
                "elasticloadbalancing:CreateLoadBalancerPolicy",
                "elasticloadbalancing:CreateTargetGroup",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteListener",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancer",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteLoadBalancerListeners",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DeleteTargetGroup",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterInstancesFromLoadBalancer",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DeregisterTargets",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeListeners",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerAttributes",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancerPolicies",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroupAttributes",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetGroups",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DescribeTargetHealth",
                "elasticloadbalancing:DetachLoadBalancerFromSubnets",
                "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyListener",
                "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyLoadBalancerAttributes",
                "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyTargetGroup",
                "elasticloadbalancing:ModifyTargetGroupAttributes",
                "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancer",
                "elasticloadbalancing:RegisterTargets",
                "elasticloadbalancing:SetLoadBalancerPoliciesForBackendServer",
                "elasticloadbalancing:SetLoadBalancerPoliciesOfListener",
                "kms:DescribeKey"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "StringEquals": {
                    "iam:AWSServiceName": "elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}
meliwex
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The Managed Node Group creation uses your permissions when it creates the Auto Scale Group. The EKS Cluster role is then used by the EKS cluster control plane to monitor that managed node group and adjust the desired instance count based on the cluster autoscaler requirements..

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