AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy

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Summary

Provides permissions for operational accounts to Remediate unmanaged nodes by providing Organisation specific permissions required by SSM automation to pull the list of member accounts within a root of an Organisation to trigger cross-account cross-region execution by allowing assuming Execution roles in target account/region.

Permissions imported from the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide; other sections pending editorial review.

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy
Default version: v1
Created: 2024-11-16
Last edited: 2024-11-16
Services: organizations, sts

Control-plane actions (3)

By access level: 2 List, 1 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Organizations	2 of 63	2 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	organizations:ListChildren, organizations:ListRoots
STS	1 of 16	1 Write; 1 restricted, 1 conditional	sts:AssumeRole

Organizations: 2 actions

organizations:ListChildren (List)
organizations:ListRoots (List)

STS: 1 actions

sts:AssumeRole (Write)

Data-plane actions (0)

By access level: none.

This policy grants no actions in this plane.

Excluded and conditional actions

No patterns are excluded by NotAction or Deny statements.

Resource scope and attachment

Resource scope across granted actions: mixed.

Can be attached: Yes, to users, groups and roles.

Why this tier

Grants 1 write, tagging or permissions-management action, short of full control of any service.

Guidance

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Same service

Same domain

Frequently asked questions

Pending editorial review. The permission data on this page comes straight from AWS; this section will be filled in once a reviewed guide exists.

Policy JSON

Download policy.json

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowReadOnlyAccessOrganization",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListChildren"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAssumeRemediationExecutionRoleWithinOrg",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/AWS-SSM-RemediationExecutionRole*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:ResourceOrgId": "${aws:PrincipalOrgId}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2024-11-16. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

AWS CLI

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy

CloudFormation

Resources:
  ExampleRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument: {}  # replace with your trust policy
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy

Terraform

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "aws_ssm_remediationautomation_operationalaccountadministrationrolepolicy" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy"
}

CDK (TypeScript)

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AWS-SSM-RemediationAutomation-OperationalAccountAdministrationRolePolicy"),
);

Sources

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