Amazon Firewall Manager and Amazon Organizations
Amazon Firewall Manager is a security management service you use to centrally configure and manage firewall rules and other protections across the Amazon Web Services accounts and applications in your organization. Using Firewall Manager, you can roll out Amazon WAF rules, create Amazon Shield Advanced protections, configure and audit Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) security groups, and deploy Amazon Network Firewalls. Use Firewall Manager to set up your protections just once and have them automatically applied across all accounts and resources within your organization, even as new resources and accounts are added. For more information about Amazon Firewall Manager, see the Amazon Firewall Manager Developer Guide.
Use the following information to help you integrate Amazon Firewall Manager 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 Firewall Manager 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 Firewall Manager and Organizations, or if you remove the member account from the organization.
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AWSServiceRoleForFMS
Service principals used by the service-linked roles
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 Firewall Manager grant access to the following service principals:
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fms.amazonaws.com
Enabling trusted access with Firewall Manager
For information about the permissions needed to enable trusted access, see Permissions required to enable trusted access.
You can enable trusted access using either the Amazon Firewall Manager console or the Amazon Organizations console.
Important
We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the Amazon Firewall Manager console or tools to enable integration with Organizations. This lets Amazon Firewall Manager perform any configuration that it requires, such as creating resources needed by the service. Proceed with these steps only if you can’t enable integration using the tools provided by Amazon Firewall Manager. For more information, see this note.
If you enable trusted access by using the Amazon Firewall Manager console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.
You must sign in with your Amazon Organizations management account and configure an account within the organization as the Amazon Firewall Manager administrator account. For more information, see Set the Amazon Firewall Manager Administrator Account in the Amazon Firewall Manager Developer Guide.
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.
Disabling trusted access with Firewall Manager
For information about the permissions needed to disable trusted access, see Permissions required to disable trusted access.
You can disable trusted access using either the Amazon Firewall Manager or Amazon Organizations tools.
Important
We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the Amazon Firewall Manager console or tools to disable integration with Organizations. This lets Amazon Firewall Manager perform any clean up that it requires, such as deleting resources or access roles that are no longer needed by the service. Proceed with these steps only if you can’t disable integration using the tools provided by Amazon Firewall Manager.
If you disable trusted access by using the Amazon Firewall Manager console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.
To disable trusted access using the Firewall Manager console
You can change or revoke the Amazon Firewall Manager administrator account by following the instructions in Designating a Different Account as the Amazon Firewall Manager Administrator Account in the Amazon Firewall Manager Developer Guide.
If you revoke the administrator account, you must sign in to the Amazon Organizations management account and set a new administrator account for Amazon Firewall Manager.
You can disable trusted access by using either the Amazon Organizations console, by running an Organizations Amazon CLI command, or by calling an Organizations API operation in one of the Amazon SDKs.
Enabling a delegated administrator account for Firewall Manager
When you designate a member account as a delegated administrator for the organization, users and roles from that account can perform administrative actions for Firewall Manager that otherwise can be performed only by users or roles in the organization's management account. This helps you to separate management of the organization from management of Firewall Manager.
Minimum permissions
Only a user or role in the Organizations management account can configure a member account as a delegated administrator for Firewall Manager in the organization.
For instructions on how to designate a member account as the Firewall Manager administrator for the organization, see Set the Amazon Firewall Manager Administrator Account in the Amazon Firewall Manager Developer Guide.