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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Organizations

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud provides on-demand, scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Cloud. When you use Amazon EC2 with Organizations; you enable the Organizations admin to create a report of what the existing configuration is for accounts across their organization after using Amazon EC2's Declarative Policies feature.

Use the following information to help you integrate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud with Amazon Organizations.

Service-linked roles created when you enable integration

The following service-linked role is automatically created in your organization's management account when you enable trusted access. This role allows Amazon EC2 to perform supported operations within your organization's accounts in your organization.

You can delete or modify this role only if you disable trusted access between Amazon EC2 and Organizations, or if you remove the member account from the organization.

Service principals used by Amazon EC2

The service-linked role in the previous section can be assumed only by the service principals authorized by the trust relationships defined for the role. The service-linked roles used by Amazon EC2 grant access to the following service principals:

Enabling trusted access with Amazon EC2

For information about the permissions needed to enable trusted access, see Permissions required to enable trusted access.

To enable the Organizations admin to create a report of what the existing configuration is for accounts across their organization, you must enable trusted access.

You can only enable trusted access using the Organizations tools.

You can enable trusted access by using either the Amazon Organizations console, by running a Amazon CLI command, or by calling an API operation in one of the Amazon SDKs.

Amazon Web Services Management Console

To enable trusted service access using the Organizations console

1. Sign in to the Amazon Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Services.

3. Choose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in the list of services.

4. Choose Enable trusted access.

5. In the Enable trusted access for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud dialog box, type enable to confirm, and then choose Enable trusted access.

6. If you are the administrator of only Amazon Organizations, tell the administrator of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud that they can now enable that service to work with Amazon Organizations from the service console .

Amazon CLI, Amazon API

To enable trusted service access using the OrganizationsCLI/SDK

Use the following Amazon CLI commands or API operations to enable trusted service access:

• Amazon CLI: enable-aws-service-access

  Run the following command to enable Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud as a trusted service with Organizations.

  $ aws organizations enable-aws-service-access \ 
      --service-principal ec2.amazonaws.com

  This command produces no output when successful.

• Amazon API: EnableAWSServiceAccess

Disabling trusted access

For information about the permissions needed to disable trusted access, see Permissions required to disable trusted access.

You can only disable trusted access using the Organizations tools.

You can disable trusted access by running a Organizations Amazon CLI command, or by calling an Organizations API operation in one of the Amazon SDKs.

Amazon CLI, Amazon API

To disable trusted service access using the Organizations CLI/SDK

Use the following Amazon CLI commands or API operations to disable trusted service access:

• Amazon CLI: disable-aws-service-access

  Run the following command to disable Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud as a trusted service with Organizations.

  $ aws organizations disable-aws-service-access \
      --service-principal ec2.amazonaws.com

  This command produces no output when successful.

• Amazon API: DisableAWSServiceAccess