**To create an AWS IoT policy** The following ``create-policy`` example creates an AWS IoT policy named TemperatureSensorPolicy. The ``policy.json`` file contains statements that allow AWS IoT policy actions. :: aws iot create-policy \ --policy-name TemperatureSensorPolicy \ --policy-document file://policy.json Contents of ``policy.json``:: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "iot:Publish", "iot:Receive" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topic/topic_1", "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topic/topic_2" ] }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "iot:Subscribe" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topicfilter/topic_1", "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topicfilter/topic_2" ] }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "iot:Connect" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:client/basicPubSub" ] } ] } Output:: { "policyName": "TemperatureSensorPolicy", "policyArn": "arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:policy/TemperatureSensorPolicy", "policyDocument": "{ \"Version\": \"2012-10-17\", \"Statement\": [ { \"Effect\": \"Allow\", \"Action\": [ \"iot:Publish\", \"iot:Receive\" ], \"Resource\": [ \"arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topic/topic_1\", \"arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topic/topic_2\" ] }, { \"Effect\": \"Allow\", \"Action\": [ \"iot:Subscribe\" ], \"Resource\": [ \"arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topicfilter/topic_1\", \"arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:topicfilter/topic_2\" ] }, { \"Effect\": \"Allow\", \"Action\": [ \"iot:Connect\" ], \"Resource\": [ \"arn:aws:iot:us-west-2:123456789012:client/basicPubSub\" ] } ] }", "policyVersionId": "1" } For more information, see `AWS IoT Policies <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-policies.html>`__ in the *AWS IoT Developers Guide*.