# Accepting a resource share invitation from Amazon RAM
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If a Data Catalog resource is shared with your Amazon account and your account is not in the same Amazon organization as the sharing account, you do not have access to the shared resource until you accept a resource share invitation from Amazon Resource Access Manager (Amazon RAM). As a data lake administrator, you must first query Amazon RAM for pending invitations and then accept the invitation.

You can use the Amazon RAM console, API, or Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) to view and accept invitations.

**To view and accept a resource share invitation from Amazon RAM (console)**

1. Ensure that you have the required Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to view and accept resource share invitations. 

   For information about the suggested IAM policies for data lake administrators, see [Data lake administrator permissions](permissions-reference.md#persona-dl-admin).

1. Follow the instructions in [Accepting and Rejecting Invitations](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-with-shared.html#working-with-shared-invitation) in the *Amazon RAM User Guide*.

**To view and accept a resource share invitation from Amazon RAM (Amazon CLI)**

1. Ensure that you have the required Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to view and accept resource share invitations. 

   For information about the suggested IAM policies for data lake administrators, see [Data lake administrator permissions](permissions-reference.md#persona-dl-admin).

1. Enter the following command to view pending resource share invitations.

   ```
   aws ram get-resource-share-invitations
   ```

   The output should be similar to the following.

   ```
   {
       "resourceShareInvitations": [
           {
               "resourceShareInvitationArn": "arn:aws:ram:us-east-1:111122223333:resource-share-invitation/a93aa60a-1bd9-46e8-96db-a4e72eec1d9f",
               "resourceShareName": "111122223333-123456789012-uswuU",
               "resourceShareArn": "arn:aws:ram:us-east-1:111122223333:resource-share/2a4ab5fb-d859-4751-84f7-8760b35fc1fe",
               "senderAccountId": "111122223333",
               "receiverAccountId": "123456789012",
               "invitationTimestamp": 1589576601.79,
               "status": "PENDING"
           }
       ]
   }
   ```

   Note the status of `PENDING`.

1. Copy the value of the `resourceShareInvitationArn` key to the clipboard.

1. Paste the value into the following command, replacing {{<invitation-arn>}}, and enter the command.

   ```
   aws ram accept-resource-share-invitation --resource-share-invitation-arn {{<invitation-arn>}}
   ```

   The output should be similar to the following.

   ```
   {
       "resourceShareInvitations": [
           {
               "resourceShareInvitationArn": "arn:aws:ram:us-east-1:111122223333:resource-share-invitation/a93aa60a-1bd9-46e8-96db-a4e72eec1d9f",
               "resourceShareName": "111122223333-123456789012-uswuU",
               "resourceShareArn": "arn:aws:ram:us-east-1:111122223333:resource-share/2a4ab5fb-d859-4751-84f7-8760b35fc1fe",
               "senderAccountId": "111122223333",
               "receiverAccountId": "123456789012",
               "invitationTimestamp": 1589576601.79,
               "status": "ACCEPTED"
           }
       ]
   }
   ```

   Note the status of `ACCEPTED`.