# Registering a Delegated Administrator for Amazon Config
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Delegated administrators are accounts within a given Amazon Organization that are granted additional administrative privileges for a specified Amazon service. For more information, see [Delegated administrator](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_getting-started_concepts.html) in the *Amazon Organizations User Guide*. You must use the Amazon CLI to register a delegated administrator.

**Registering a Delegated Administrator**

1. Log in with management account credentials.

1. Open a command prompt or a terminal window.

1. Enter the following command to enable service access as a delegated administrator for your organization to deploy and manage Amazon Config rules and conformance packs across your organization:

   ```
   aws organizations enable-aws-service-access --service-principal=config-multiaccountsetup.amazonaws.com
   ```

1. Enter the following command to enable service access as a delegated administrator for your organization to aggregate Amazon Config data across your organization:

   ```
   aws organizations enable-aws-service-access --service-principal=config.amazonaws.com
   ```

1. To check if the enable service access is complete, enter the following command and press Enter to execute the command.

   ```
   aws organizations list-aws-service-access-for-organization
   ```

   You should see output similar to the following:

   ```
   {
       "EnabledServicePrincipals": [
           {
               "ServicePrincipal": [
                   "config.amazonaws.com",
                   "config-multiaccountsetup.amazonaws.com"
           ],
               "DateEnabled": 1607020860.881
           }
       ]
   }
   ```

1. Next, enter the following command to register a member account as a delegated administrator for Amazon Config.

   ```
   aws organizations register-delegated-administrator --service-principal=config-multiaccountsetup.amazonaws.com --account-id MemberAccountID
   ```

   and

   ```
   aws organizations register-delegated-administrator --service-principal=config.amazonaws.com --account-id MemberAccountID
   ```

1. To check if the registration of delegated administrator is complete, enter the following command from the management account and press Enter to execute the command.

   ```
   aws organizations list-delegated-administrators --service-principal=config-multiaccountsetup.amazonaws.com
   ```

   and

   ```
   aws organizations list-delegated-administrators --service-principal=config.amazonaws.com
   ```

   You should see output similar to the following:

   ```
   {
       "DelegatedAdministrators": [
           {
               "Id": "MemberAccountID",
               "Arn": "arn:aws:organizations::ManagementAccountID:account/o-c7esubdi38/MemberAccountID",
               "Email": "name@amazon.com",
               "Name": "name",
               "Status": "ACTIVE",
               "JoinedMethod": "INVITED",
               "JoinedTimestamp": 1604867734.48,
               "DelegationEnabledDate": 1607020986.801
           }
       ]
   }
   ```