View a resource-based delegation policy with Amazon Organizations - Amazon Organizations
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View a resource-based delegation policy with Amazon Organizations

From the management account, view your organization’s resource-based delegation policy to understand which delegated administrators have access to manage which policy types.

Minimum permissions

To view the resource-based delegation policy, you need permissions to run the following action: organizations:DescribeResourcePolicy.

Amazon Web Services Management Console
To view a delegation policy

  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. Choose Settings.

  3. In the Delegated administrator for Amazon Organizations section, scroll to view the full delegation policy.

Amazon CLI & Amazon SDKs
View a delegation policy

You can use the following command to view a delegation policy:

  • Amazon CLI: describe-resource-policy

    The following example retrieves the policy.

    $ aws organizations describe-resource-policy