Amazon Resource Access Manager and Amazon Organizations - Amazon Organizations
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Amazon Resource Access Manager and Amazon Organizations

Amazon Resource Access Manager (Amazon RAM) enables you to share specified Amazon resources that you own with other Amazon Web Services accounts. It's a centralized service that provides a consistent experience for sharing different types of Amazon resources across multiple accounts.

For more information about Amazon RAM, see the Amazon RAM User Guide.

Use the following information to help you integrate Amazon Resource Access 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 Amazon RAM 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 RAM and Organizations, or if you remove the member account from the organization.

  • AWSServiceRoleForResourceAccessManager

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 Amazon RAM grant access to the following service principals:

  • ram.amazonaws.com

Enabling trusted access with Amazon RAM

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 Resource Access Manager console or the Amazon Organizations console.

Important

We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the Amazon Resource Access Manager console or tools to enable integration with Organizations. This lets Amazon Resource Access 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 Resource Access Manager. For more information, see this note.

If you enable trusted access by using the Amazon Resource Access Manager console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.

To enable trusted access using the Amazon RAM console or CLI

See Enable Sharing with Amazon Organizations in the Amazon RAM User 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.

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. On the Services page, find the row for Amazon Resource Access Manager, choose the service’s name, and then choose Enable trusted access.

  3. In the confirmation dialog box, enable Show the option to enable trusted access, enter enable in the box, and then choose Enable trusted access.

  4. If you are the administrator of only Amazon Organizations, tell the administrator of Amazon Resource Access Manager that they can now enable that service using its console to work with Amazon Organizations.

Amazon CLI, Amazon API
To enable trusted service access using the OrganizationsCLI/SDK

You can use the following Amazon CLI commands or API operations to enable trusted service access:

  • Amazon CLI: enable-aws-service-access

    You can run the following command to enable Amazon Resource Access Manager as a trusted service with Organizations.

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

    This command produces no output when successful.

  • Amazon API: EnableAWSServiceAccess

Disabling trusted access with Amazon RAM

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 Resource Access Manager or Amazon Organizations tools.

Important

We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the Amazon Resource Access Manager console or tools to disable integration with Organizations. This lets Amazon Resource Access 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 Resource Access Manager.

If you disable trusted access by using the Amazon Resource Access Manager console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.

To disable trusted access using the Amazon Resource Access Manager console or CLI

See Enable Sharing with Amazon Organizations in the Amazon RAM User Guide.

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.

Amazon Web Services Management Console
To disable 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. On the Services page, find the row for Amazon Resource Access Manager and then choose the service’s name.

  3. Choose Disable trusted access.

  4. In the confirmation dialog box, enter disable in the box, and then choose Disable trusted access.

  5. If you are the administrator of only Amazon Organizations, tell the administrator of Amazon Resource Access Manager that they can now disable that service using its console or tools from working with Amazon Organizations.

Amazon CLI, Amazon API
To disable trusted service access using the Organizations CLI/SDK

You can use the following Amazon CLI commands or API operations to disable trusted service access:

  • Amazon CLI: disable-aws-service-access

    You can run the following command to disable Amazon Resource Access Manager as a trusted service with Organizations.

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

    This command produces no output when successful.

  • Amazon API: DisableAWSServiceAccess