CloudFormationStackSetsOrgAdminServiceRolePolicy

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Summary

Service Role for CloudFormation StackSets (Organization Master Account)

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

Identity

ARN: arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/aws-service-role/CloudFormationStackSetsOrgAdminServiceRolePolicy
Default version: v1
Created: 2019-12-10
Last edited: 2019-12-10
Services: organizations, sts

Control-plane actions (30)

By access level: 20 List, 9 Read, 1 Write.

Control-plane actions by service
Service	Granted	Access levels and limits	Granted by
Organizations	29 of 63	20 List, 9 Read; 0 restricted, 0 conditional	organizations:Describe, organizations:List
STS	1 of 16	1 Write; 1 restricted, 0 conditional	sts:AssumeRole

Organizations: 29 actions

organizations:DescribeAccount (Read)
organizations:DescribeCreateAccountStatus (Read)
organizations:DescribeEffectivePolicy (Read)
organizations:DescribeHandshake (Read)
organizations:DescribeOrganization (Read)
organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit (Read)
organizations:DescribePolicy (Read)
organizations:DescribeResourcePolicy (Read)
organizations:DescribeResponsibilityTransfer (Read)
organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization (List)
organizations:ListAccounts (List)
organizations:ListAccountsForParent (List)
organizations:ListAccountsWithInvalidEffectivePolicy (List)
organizations:ListChildren (List)
organizations:ListCreateAccountStatus (List)
organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators (List)
organizations:ListDelegatedServicesForAccount (List)
organizations:ListEffectivePolicyValidationErrors (List)
organizations:ListHandshakesForAccount (List)
organizations:ListHandshakesForOrganization (List)
organizations:ListInboundResponsibilityTransfers (List)
organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent (List)
organizations:ListOutboundResponsibilityTransfers (List)
organizations:ListParents (List)
organizations:ListPolicies (List)
organizations:ListPoliciesForTarget (List)
organizations:ListRoots (List)
organizations:ListTagsForResource (List)
organizations:ListTargetsForPolicy (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: No (service-linked role policy).

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": "AllowsAWSOrganizationsReadAPIs",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:List*",
        "organizations:Describe*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowAssumeRoleInMemberAccounts",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/stacksets-exec-*"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v1, edited by AWS on 2019-12-10. Version history is recorded from 2026-11-11. Earlier versions are in the IAM console under Policy versions.

Attach snippets

This policy cannot be attached to users, groups or roles, so there are no attach snippets.

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.