Setting up a role for Amazon Budgets to run budget actions - Amazon Cost Management
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Setting up a role for Amazon Budgets to run budget actions

To use budget actions, you must create a service role for Amazon Budgets. A service role is an IAM role that a service assumes to perform actions on your behalf. An IAM administrator can create, modify, and delete a service role from within IAM. For more information, see Create a role to delegate permissions to an Amazon Web Services service in the IAM User Guide.

To allow Amazon Budgets to perform actions on your behalf, you must grant the necessary permissions to the service role. The following table lists the permissions that you can grant the service role.

Permissions policy for budget actions Instructions

Allows permission to control Amazon resources

This is an Amazon managed policy.

For instructions on how to attach a managed policy, see To use a managed policy as a permissions policy for an identity (console) in the IAM User Guide

Allow Amazon Budgets to apply IAM policies and SCPs

You can use this example policy as an inline policy or a customer managed policy.

For instructions on how to embed an inline policy, see To embed an inline policy for a user or role (console) in the IAM User Guide.

For instructions on how to create a customer managed policy, see Creating IAM policies (console) in the IAM User Guide.

Allow Amazon Budgets to apply IAM policies and SCPs and target EC2 and RDS instances

You can use this example policy as an inline policy or a customer managed policy.

For instructions on how to embed an inline policy, see To embed an inline policy for a user or role (console) in the IAM User Guide.

For instructions on how to create a customer managed policy, see Creating IAM policies (console) in the IAM User Guide.