AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccess

Summary

This policy is for backup administators who use cross-account backup management to manage backups for the organization.

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v3

Created

2020-06-24

Last edited

2022-11-18

Services

organizations

Control-plane actions (27)

By access level: 11 List, 3 Permissions management, 5 Read, 8 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 11 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, short of full control of any service.
• Grants permissions-management actions on organizations, but only for scoped resources or under conditions.

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.

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• AmazonEKSDashboardConsoleReadOnly
• AmazonEKSDashboardServiceRolePolicy

Same domain

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• AmazonCloudWatchEvidentlyServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonCodeCatalystSupportAccess
• AmazonDevOpsGuruServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonEKSConnectorServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonEKSLocalOutpostClusterPolicy
• AmazonElasticFileSystemsUtils
• AmazonInspector2ThirdPartyServiceRolePolicy

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": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess",
        "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
            "backup.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
        "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:organizations::*:account/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
            "backup.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:AttachPolicy",
        "organizations:ListPoliciesForTarget",
        "organizations:ListTargetsForPolicy",
        "organizations:DetachPolicy",
        "organizations:DisablePolicyType",
        "organizations:DescribePolicy",
        "organizations:DescribeEffectivePolicy",
        "organizations:ListPolicies",
        "organizations:EnablePolicyType",
        "organizations:CreatePolicy",
        "organizations:UpdatePolicy",
        "organizations:DeletePolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLikeIfExists": {
          "organizations:PolicyType": [
            "BACKUP_POLICY"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListParents",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListChildren",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2022-11-18. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name ROLE_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccess

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

resource "aws_iam_role_policy_attachment" "awsbackuporganizationadminaccess" {
  role       = aws_iam_role.example.name
  policy_arn = "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccess"
}

role.addManagedPolicy(
  iam.ManagedPolicy.fromAwsManagedPolicyName("AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccess"),
);

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for AWSBackupOrganizationAdminAccess
• Report a data issue