diff --git a/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/README.md b/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/README.md
index 5d374ed..4d46ad5 100644
--- a/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/README.md
+++ b/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/README.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Allows the Ditto control plane to create IAM roles within the customer account.
 
 Permission boundaries are defined in the `policies/` folder. They constrain the maximum permissions any role created by Ditto can hold.
 
-- `cluster-resources-boundary-policy.json.tpl` — applied to roles accessed by internal cluster services; parameterised with `ec2_project_tag`, the selected VPC ARN, and its subnet IDs. Security-group mutations require the `ditto:project` resource tag, with a VPC-scoped path for load balancer controller operations on untagged node security groups; there is no account-wide mutation allow. EC2 tags may establish the project marker only as part of resource creation; direct tag updates require the marker to exist already. Load-balancer creation and `SetSubnets` require every requested subnet to be one of the selected VPC's subnets while preserving the remaining operations needed to reconcile Kubernetes Services and Ingresses. EC2 actions are explicitly enumerated: reads (Describe*/Get*) for all controllers, plus `CreateFleet`/`CreateLaunchTemplate`/`DeleteLaunchTemplate`/`RunInstances`/`TerminateInstances` for Karpenter. Additional Karpenter services: `ssm:GetParameter` (scoped to EKS/Bottlerocket AMI paths), `sqs:*` (scoped to `karpenter-*` queues), `iam:PassRole` (scoped to CAPA node roles), `eks:DescribeCluster`, `pricing:GetProducts`. `autoscaling:*` is not included — Cluster Autoscaler runs in machine deployment mode and scales via the Kubernetes API, not direct ASG calls.
+- `cluster-resources-boundary-policy.json.tpl` — applied to roles accessed by internal cluster services; parameterised with `ec2_project_tag`, the selected VPC ARN, and its subnet IDs. Security-group mutations require the `ditto:project` resource tag, with a VPC-scoped path for load balancer controller operations on untagged node security groups; there is no account-wide mutation allow. EC2 tags may establish the project marker only as part of resource creation; direct tag updates require the marker to exist already. Load-balancer creation and `SetSubnets` require every requested subnet to be one of the selected VPC's subnets while preserving the remaining operations needed to reconcile Kubernetes Services and Ingresses. EC2 actions are explicitly enumerated: reads (Describe*/Get*) for all controllers, plus `CreateFleet`/`CreateLaunchTemplate`/`DeleteLaunchTemplate`/`RunInstances`/`TerminateInstances` for Karpenter. Additional Karpenter services: `ssm:GetParameter` (scoped to EKS/Bottlerocket AMI paths), `sqs:*` (scoped to `karpenter-*` queues), `iam:PassRole` (scoped to CAPA node roles), instance-profile reads (`iam:GetInstanceProfile`/`iam:ListInstanceProfiles`, needed by the Karpenter EC2NodeClass controller and its termination finalizer), `eks:DescribeCluster`, `pricing:GetProducts`. `autoscaling:*` is not included — Cluster Autoscaler runs in machine deployment mode and scales via the Kubernetes API, not direct ASG calls.
 - `cluster-external-resources-boundary-policy.json` — applied to roles accessed by external cluster services; limited to Secrets Manager write operations:
   ```
   secretsmanager:CreateSecret
diff --git a/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/policies/cluster-resources-boundary-policy.json.tpl b/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/policies/cluster-resources-boundary-policy.json.tpl
index 4ea6703..ba95000 100644
--- a/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/policies/cluster-resources-boundary-policy.json.tpl
+++ b/terraform/aws/cross_account_iam/policies/cluster-resources-boundary-policy.json.tpl
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@
       ],
       "Resource": ${capa_pass_role_resource}
     },
+    {
+      "Effect": "Allow",
+      "Action": [
+        "iam:GetInstanceProfile",
+        "iam:ListInstanceProfiles"
+      ],
+      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:instance-profile/*"
+    },
     {
       "Effect": "Allow",
       "Action": [