Troubleshooting Amazon Service Catalog identity and access
Use the following information to help you diagnose and fix common issues you might encounter when working with Amazon Service Catalog and IAM.
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I am not authorized to perform an action in Amazon Service Catalog
If the Amazon Web Services Management Console tells you that you're not
authorized to perform an action, then you must contact your administrator for
assistance. Your administrator is the person that provided you with your sign-in credentials. The following
example error occurs when the mateojackson user
tries to use the console to view details about a fictional my-example-widget
resource but does not have the fictional aws:GetWidget permissions.
User: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/mateojackson is not authorized to perform: aws:GetWidget on resource: my-example-widget
In this case, Mateo asks his administrator to update his policies to allow him to
access the my-example-widget resource using the aws:GetWidget action.
I am not authorized to perform
iam:PassRole
If you receive an error that you're not authorized to perform the
iam:PassRole action, then you must contact your administrator for assistance. Your
administrator is the person that provided you with your user name and password. Ask
that person to update your policies to allow you to pass a role to Amazon Service Catalog.
Some Amazon services allow you to pass an existing role to that service, instead of creating a new service role or service-linked role. To do this, you must have permissions to pass the role to the service.
The following example error occurs when a user named marymajor tries to use the console to perform an action in Amazon Service Catalog. However, the action requires the service to have permissions granted by a service role. Mary does not have permissions to pass the role to the service.
User: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/marymajor is not authorized to perform: iam:PassRole
In this case, Mary asks her administrator to update her policies to allow her to perform the iam:PassRole action.
I want to allow people outside of my Amazon account to access my Amazon Service Catalog resources
You can create a role that users in other accounts or people outside of your organization can use to access your resources. You can specify who is trusted to assume the role. For services that support resource-based policies or access control lists (ACLs), you can use those policies to grant people access to your resources.
To learn more, consult the following:
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To learn whether Amazon Service Catalog supports these features, see Amazon Identity and Access Management in Amazon Service Catalog in the Amazon Service Catalog Administrator Guide.
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To learn how to provide access to your resources across Amazon accounts that you own, see Providing access to an IAM user in another Amazon account that you own in the IAM User Guide.
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To learn how to provide access to your resources to third-party Amazon accounts, see Providing access to Amazon accounts owned by third parties in the IAM User Guide.
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To learn how to provide access through identity federation, see Providing access to externally authenticated users (identity federation) in the IAM User Guide.
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To learn the difference between using roles and resource-based policies for cross-account access, see How IAM roles differ from resource-based policies in the IAM User Guide.