License Manager – Management account role
License Manager requires a service-linked role to perform license management.
Permissions for the management account role
The service-linked role named
AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerMasterAccountRole allows License Manager
access to Amazon resources to manage license management actions for a central management
account on your behalf.
The AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerMasterAccountRole
service-linked role trusts the license-manager.master-account.amazonaws.com
service to assume the role.
To review permissions for the AWSLicenseManagerMasterAccountRolePolicy, see Amazon managed policy: AWSLicenseManagerMasterAccountRolePolicy. To learn more about configuring permissions for a service-linked role, see Service-Linked Role Permissions in the IAM User Guide.
Create a management account service-linked role
You don't need to manually create this service-linked role. When you configure cross-account license management in the Amazon Web Services Management Console, License Manager creates the service-linked role for you.
Note
To make use of cross-account support in License Manager, you must be using Amazon Organizations.
If you delete this service-linked role and then need to create it again, you can use the same process to recreate the role in your account.
You can also use the IAM console, Amazon CLI, or IAM API to create a service-linked role manually. For more information, see Creating a Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.
Important
This service-linked role can appear in your account if you completed an action in
another service that uses the features supported by this role. If you were using License Manager
before January 1, 2017, when it began supporting service-linked roles, then License Manager
created AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerMasterAccountRole in your
account. For more information, see A New
Role Appeared in My IAM Account.
You can use the License Manager console to create this service-linked role.
To create the service-linked role
Open the License Manager console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/license-manager/
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Choose Settings, Edit.
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Choose Link Amazon Organizations accounts.
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Choose Apply.
You can also use the IAM console to create a service-linked role with the
License Manager–Management account use case. Alternatively, in the Amazon CLI or the Amazon API, use
IAM to create a service-linked role with the
license-manager.master-account.amazonaws.com service name. For more
information, see Creating a
Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.
If you delete this service-linked role, you can use the same IAM process to create the role again.
Edit a service-linked role for License Manager
License Manager does not allow you to edit the
AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerMasterAccountRole service-linked
role. After you create a service-linked role, you cannot change the name of the role because
various entities might reference the role. However, you can edit the description of the role
using IAM. For more information, see Editing a
Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.
Delete a service-linked role for License Manager
If you no longer need to use a feature or service that requires a service-linked role, we recommend that you delete that role. That way, you only have entities that are actively monitored or maintained. However, you must clean up your service-linked role before you can manually delete it.
Manually delete the service-linked role
Use the IAM console, Amazon CLI, or Amazon API to delete the
AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerMasterAccountRole service-linked
role. For more information, see Deleting
a Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.