AWSManagedAccountUserEntitlementAccess

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Summary

Grants AWS permissions to manage account access entitlements for AWS managed accounts

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSManagedAccountUserEntitlementAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2026-07-17
Last edited: 2026-07-17
Services: account-access, identitystore, sso, sso-directory

Control-plane actions (9)

By access level: 3 List, 3 Read, 3 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Account access manager	3 of 11	2 List, 1 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	account-access:CreateEntitlement, account-access:ListApplications, account-access:ListEntitlements
Identity Store	4 of 29	2 Read, 2 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	identitystore:CreateGroup, identitystore:CreateGroupMembership, identitystore:GetGroupId, identitystore:GetUserId
IAM Identity Center	1 of 126	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sso:ListInstances
IAM Identity Center directory	1 of 57	1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	sso-directory:ListProvisioningTenants

Account access manager: 3 actions

account-access:CreateEntitlement (Write)
account-access:ListApplications (List)
account-access:ListEntitlements (List)

Identity Store: 4 actions

identitystore:CreateGroup (Write)
identitystore:CreateGroupMembership (Write)
identitystore:GetGroupId (Read)
identitystore:GetUserId (Read)

IAM Identity Center: 1 actions

sso:ListInstances (List)

IAM Identity Center directory: 1 actions

sso-directory:ListProvisioningTenants (Read)

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: all-resources.

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

Why this tier

Grants 3 write, tagging or permissions-management actions, 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": {
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
      "identitystore:CreateGroup",
      "identitystore:GetGroupId",
      "identitystore:GetUserId",
      "identitystore:CreateGroupMembership",
      "sso:ListInstances",
      "sso-directory:ListProvisioningTenants",
      "account-access:ListApplications",
      "account-access:CreateEntitlement",
      "account-access:ListEntitlements"
    ],
    "Resource": "*"
  }
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2026-07-17. 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/AWSManagedAccountUserEntitlementAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSManagedAccountUserEntitlementAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSManagedAccountUserEntitlementAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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