diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml b/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
index 3f820b998f..bce93252e6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmarking.yml
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ concurrency:
 
 jobs:
   ingest:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      statuses: write
+      id-token: write # aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
     env:
       PG_CONFIG: /tmp/neon/pg_install/v16/bin/pg_config
     runs-on: [ self-hosted, us-east-2, x64 ]