How to grant SNS topic permission to write to SQS queue in javascript (v3 API)?

Question

As subject, I've been struggling with this all day and can't find a solution.

I have a SNS topic, and a SQS queue subscribed to it. Creation of both, and the subscription, is done programatically using the v3 javascript SDK. I can see the two resources and the subscription in the console.

When I write to the topic, nothing appears on the queue (polled from the console). The queue access policy looks like this:
```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Id": "arn:aws:sqs:eu-west-1:98xxxxx8745:nocodebots/SQSDefaultPolicy"
}
```

If I select the subscription in the console (SNS Subscription) and click the "Subscribe to AmazonSNS topic" button, the access policy changes to this:
```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Id": "arn:aws:sqs:eu-west-1:98xxxxx8745:undefined/SQSDefaultPolicy",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "topic-subscription-arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:98xxxxx8745:nocodebots",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "AWS": "*"
      },
      "Action": "SQS:SendMessage",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:sqs:eu-west-1:98xxxxx8745:nocodebots",
      "Condition": {
        "ArnLike": {
          "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:98xxxxx8745:nocodebots"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```
Everything now works - messages posted to the topic are routed to the queue.

So I assume I need to give the SNS Topic permission to write to the SQS queue.
I'm also assuming I need to create a policy to do this, but it seems I need my Account ID in the policy. Is this necessary, given that I have Arns for the Topic and Queue and the QueueUrls?? The same piece of code, in the same context builds both, and the subscription is successful, so surely I have everything to also grant the permission at the same time?

Scratching my head!

David

Answer

Gool, thanks :) Now I see how it fits together.

I solved it with the policy below, using the topic Arn rather than the account ID:
```
let response;
let topicArn = getTopic('topic_name');             // my own function, returns topic Arn
let queue = getQueueUrlAndArn('queue_name');   // my own function, returns { Arn: 'xxxx', Url: 'yyyy' }

// give the topic permission to write to the queue
let policy = {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "Write_Launch_Queue_Policy",
    "Statement": {
         "Sid":"Write_Launch_Queue_Statement",
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Principal": { "Service": "sns.amazonaws.com" },
        "Condition": { "ArnLike": { "aws:sourceArn": topicArn } },
        "Action": "sqs:SendMessage",
        "Resource": queue.Arn
    }
};

response = await this.#sqsClient.send(new SetQueueAttributesCommand({ QueueUrl: queue.Url, Attributes: { Policy: JSON.stringify(policy) } }));

// now subscribe the queue to the topic
response = await this.#snsClient.send(new SubscribeCommand({ TopicArn: topicArn, Protocol: 'sqs', Endpoint: queue.Arn, ReturnSubscriptionArn: false}));
```

From what I can work out, this only gives the specified Topic permission to write to the specified Queue, nice and tight.

All the best,

David

Answer

Hi,  it is necessary know the account in order that the policy executes over the right resource, here there are documentation related with IAM and the SNS policies management https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SendMessageToHttp.iam.permissions.html

The idea when you use a policy is to make it the most granular possible, and for doing that the policy have to know exactly were the resources are, for that reason is the use of the ID account.

Additionally, if you have a case that you use more than 1 account (is very common), make a cross policy is possible also when you define the account ID.

I will share with you some tools that you could use to create policies:
https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/iam/create-policy.html#examples
https://awspolicygen.s3.amazonaws.com/policygen.html

How to grant SNS topic permission to write to SQS queue in javascript (v3 API)?

Relevant content