Identity-based policy examples for Amazon Account Management - Amazon Account Management
Policy best practicesUsing the consoleProviding read-only access to the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management ConsoleProviding full access to the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console
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Identity-based policy examples for Amazon Account Management

By default, users and roles don't have permission to create or modify Account Management resources. They also can't perform tasks by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), or Amazon API. To grant users permission to perform actions on the resources that they need, an IAM administrator can create IAM policies. The administrator can then add the IAM policies to roles, and users can assume the roles.

To learn how to create an IAM identity-based policy by using these example JSON policy documents, see Create IAM policies (console) in the IAM User Guide.

For details about actions and resource types defined by Account Management, including the format of the ARNs for each of the resource types, see Actions, resources, and condition keys for Amazon Account Management in the Service Authorization Reference.

Policy best practices

Identity-based policies determine whether someone can create, access, or delete Account Management resources in your account. These actions can incur costs for your Amazon Web Services account. When you create or edit identity-based policies, follow these guidelines and recommendations:

  • Get started with Amazon managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions – To get started granting permissions to your users and workloads, use the Amazon managed policies that grant permissions for many common use cases. They are available in your Amazon Web Services account. We recommend that you reduce permissions further by defining Amazon customer managed policies that are specific to your use cases. For more information, see Amazon managed policies or Amazon managed policies for job functions in the IAM User Guide.

  • Apply least-privilege permissions – When you set permissions with IAM policies, grant only the permissions required to perform a task. You do this by defining the actions that can be taken on specific resources under specific conditions, also known as least-privilege permissions. For more information about using IAM to apply permissions, see Policies and permissions in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

  • Use conditions in IAM policies to further restrict access – You can add a condition to your policies to limit access to actions and resources. For example, you can write a policy condition to specify that all requests must be sent using SSL. You can also use conditions to grant access to service actions if they are used through a specific Amazon Web Services service, such as Amazon CloudFormation. For more information, see IAM JSON policy elements: Condition in the IAM User Guide.

  • Use IAM Access Analyzer to validate your IAM policies to ensure secure and functional permissions – IAM Access Analyzer validates new and existing policies so that the policies adhere to the IAM policy language (JSON) and IAM best practices. IAM Access Analyzer provides more than 100 policy checks and actionable recommendations to help you author secure and functional policies. For more information, see Validate policies with IAM Access Analyzer in the IAM User Guide.

  • Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) – If you have a scenario that requires IAM users or a root user in your Amazon Web Services account, turn on MFA for additional security. To require MFA when API operations are called, add MFA conditions to your policies. For more information, see Secure API access with MFA in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about best practices in IAM, see Security best practices in IAM in the IAM User Guide.

Using the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console

To access the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you must have a minimum set of permissions. These permissions must allow you to list and view details about your Amazon Web Services account. If you create an identity-based policy that is more restrictive than the minimum required permissions, the console won't function as intended for entities (IAM users or roles) with that policy.

To ensure that users and roles can use the Account Management console, you can choose to attach either the AWSAccountManagementReadOnlyAccess or AWSAccountManagementFullAccess Amazon managed policy to the entities. For more information, see Adding permissions to a user in the IAM User Guide.

You don't need to allow minimum console permissions for users that are making calls only to the Amazon CLI or the Amazon API. Instead, in many cases you can choose to allow access to only the actions that match the API operations that you're trying to perform.

Providing read-only access to the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console

In the following example, you want to grant an IAM user in your Amazon Web Services account read-only access to the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. Users with this policy attached can't make any changes.

The account:GetAccountInformation action grants access to view most of the settings on the Account page. However, to view the currently enabled Amazon Regions, you must also include the account:ListRegions action.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "GrantReadOnlyAccessToAccountSettings",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "account:GetAccountInformation",
                "account:ListRegions"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

Providing full access to the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console

In the following example, you want to grant an IAM user in your Amazon Web Services account full access to the Account page in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. Users with this policy attached can alter settings for the account.

This example policy builds on the preceding example policy by adding each of the available write permissions (with the exception of CloseAccount), which allows the user to change most of the settings for the account, including the account:EnableRegion and account:DisableRegion permissions.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "GrantFullAccessToAccountSettings",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "account:GetAccountInformation",
                "account:ListRegions",
                "account:PutContactInformation",
                "account:PutChallengeQuestions",
                "account:PutAlternateContact",
                "account:DeleteAlternateContact",
                "account:EnableRegion",
                "account:DisableRegion"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}