WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccess

Summary

Provides full access to AWS Well-Architected Tool via the AWS Management Console

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

Identity

ARN

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccessCopy ARN

Default version

v3

Created

2018-11-29

Last edited

2026-10-29

Services

iam, organizations, trustedadvisor, wellarchitected

Control-plane actions (131)

By access level: 33 List, 4 Permissions management, 36 Read, 2 Tagging, 56 Write.

Data-plane actions (1)

By access level: 1 Write.

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: wellarchitected (49 of 49).
• Grants iam:PassRole, but only for scoped roles or under conditions (for example iam:PassedToService).
• Grants permissions-management actions on iam, 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.

Related policies

Same service

• WellArchitectedConsoleReadOnlyAccess

Same domain

• AccountAccessManagerServiceRolePolicy
• AIDevOpsAgentAccessPolicy
• AIDevOpsOrganizationsAccessPolicy
• AmazonCloudWatchEvidentlyServiceRolePolicy
• AmazonCodeCatalystSupportAccess
• AmazonDetectiveOrganizationsAccess
• AmazonDetectiveServiceLinkedRolePolicy
• AmazonDevOpsGuruOrganizationsAccess

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": "wellarchitected:*",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedServicesForAccount",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
        "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator",
        "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
        "organizations:DisableAWSServiceAccess"
      ],
      "Resource": "*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal": "agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "trustedadvisor:List*",
        "trustedadvisor:Get*"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource": "arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/*/AWSServiceRoleForWellArchitected*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:AWSServiceName": [
            "wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
            "agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
            "metrics.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
            "scanning.agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
        "iam:GetServiceLinkedRoleDeletionStatus"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:*:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/*/AWSServiceRoleForWellArchitected*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreateRole",
        "iam:AttachRolePolicy"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/service-role/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "iam:CreatePolicy",
        "iam:CreatePolicyVersion",
        "iam:DeletePolicyVersion"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:policy/service-role/*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:ListRoles",
      "Resource": "*"
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "iam:PassedToService": [
            "wellarchitected.amazonaws.com",
            "agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "iam:GetRole",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/scanning.agent.wellarchitected.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForWellArchitectedAgent_ResourceScanning"
    }
  ]
}

Version history

Current version v3, edited by AWS on 2026-10-29. 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/WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccess
aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name USER_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccess
aws iam attach-group-policy --group-name GROUP_NAME --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccess

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

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

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

Sources

Pending editorial review. No editorial sources are listed yet.

• Official AWS reference for WellArchitectedConsoleFullAccess
• Report a data issue