AWSResourceExplorerOrganizationsAccess

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Summary

This policy grants administrative permissions to Resource Explorer and grants read-only permissions to other AWS services to support this access. The AWS Organizations administrator needs these permissions to setup and manage multi-account search in the console.

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSResourceExplorerOrganizationsAccess
Default version: v1
Created: 2023-11-14
Last edited: 2023-11-14
Services: ec2, iam, organizations, ram, resource-explorer-2

Control-plane actions (53)

By access level: 16 List, 2 Permissions management, 15 Read, 2 Tagging, 18 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
EC2	1 of 834	1 List; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ec2:DescribeRegions
IAM	2 of 190	1 Read, 1 Write; 2 restricted, 1 conditional	iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole, iam:GetRole
Organizations	11 of 63	6 List, 1 Read, 4 Write; 4 restricted, 4 conditional	organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator, organizations:DescribeOrganization, organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess, organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess, organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization, organizations:ListAccounts, organizations:ListAccountsForParent, organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators, organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent, organizations:ListRoots, organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator
Resource Access Manager	2 of 39	1 List, 1 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	ram:GetResourceShares, ram:ListResources
Resource Explorer	All 37 actions (see the Resource Explorer page)	8 List, 2 Permissions management, 12 Read, 2 Tagging, 13 Write; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	resource-explorer-2:*

EC2: 1 actions

ec2:DescribeRegions (List)

IAM: 2 actions

iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole (Write)
iam:GetRole (Read)

Organizations: 11 actions

organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator (Write)
organizations:DescribeOrganization (Read)
organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess (Write)
organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess (Write)
organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization (List)
organizations:ListAccounts (List)
organizations:ListAccountsForParent (List)
organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators (List)
organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent (List)
organizations:ListRoots (List)
organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator (Write)

Resource Access Manager: 2 actions

ram:GetResourceShares (Read)
ram:ListResources (List)

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 at least 80% of the write and permissions-management actions of: resource-explorer-2 (15 of 15).

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": "ReadOnlyAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "resource-explorer-2:*",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ram:ListResources",
        "ram:GetResourceShares",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ResourceExplorerGetSLRAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:GetRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForResourceExplorer"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "ResourceExplorerCreateSLRAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": [
            "resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "OrganizationsAdministratorAccess",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
        "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess",
        "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
        "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": [
            "resource-explorer-2.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2023-11-14. 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/AWSResourceExplorerOrganizationsAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSResourceExplorerOrganizationsAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSResourceExplorerOrganizationsAccess

CloudFormation

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

Terraform

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

CDK (TypeScript)

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

Sources

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