Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations (service prefix: organizations) provides the following service-specific resources, actions, and condition context keys for use in IAM permission policies.

References:

• Learn how to configure this service.

• View a list of the API operations available for this service.

• Learn how to secure this service and its resources by using IAM permission policies.

Actions defined by AWS Organizations

You can specify the following actions in the Action element of an IAM policy statement. Use policies to grant permissions to perform an operation in AWS. When you use an action in a policy, you usually allow or deny access to the API operation or CLI command with the same name. However, in some cases, a single action controls access to more than one operation. Alternatively, some operations require several different actions.

The Resource types column of the Actions table indicates whether each action supports resource-level permissions. If there is no value for this column, you must specify all resources ("*") to which the policy applies in the Resource element of your policy statement. If the column includes a resource type, then you can specify an ARN of that type in a statement with that action. If the action has one or more required resources, the caller must have permission to use the action with those resources. Required resources are indicated in the table with an asterisk (*). If you limit resource access with the Resource element in an IAM policy, you must include an ARN or pattern for each required resource type. Some actions support multiple resource types. If the resource type is optional (not indicated as required), then you can choose to use one of the optional resource types.

The Condition keys column of the Actions table includes keys that you can specify in a policy statement's Condition element. For more information on the condition keys that are associated with resources for the service, see the Condition keys column of the Resource types table.

Note

Resource condition keys are listed in the Resource types table. You can find a link to the resource type that applies to an action in the Resource types (*required) column of the Actions table. The resource type in the Resource types table includes the Condition keys column, which are the resource condition keys that apply to an action in the Actions table.

For details about the columns in the following table, see Actions table.

Actions	Description	Access level	Resource types (*required)	Condition keys	Dependent actions
AcceptHandshake	Grants permission to send a response to the originator of a handshake agreeing to the action proposed by the handshake request	Write	handshake*		iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole
AttachPolicy	Grants permission to attach a policy to a root, an organizational unit, or an individual account	Write	policy*
			account
			organizationalunit
			root
				organizations:PolicyType
CancelHandshake	Grants permission to cancel a handshake	Write	handshake*
CloseAccount	Grants permission to close an AWS account that is now a part of an Organizations, either created within the organization, or invited to join the organization	Write	account*
CreateAccount	Grants permission to create an AWS account that is automatically a member of the organization with the credentials that made the request	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateGovCloudAccount	Grants permission to create an AWS GovCloud (US) account	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreateOrganization	Grants permission to create an organization. The account with the credentials that calls the CreateOrganization operation automatically becomes the management account of the new organization	Write			iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole
CreateOrganizationalUnit	Grants permission to create an organizational unit (OU) within a root or parent OU	Write	organizationalunit
			root
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
CreatePolicy	Grants permission to create a policy that you can attach to a root, an organizational unit (OU), or an individual AWS account	Write		organizations:PolicyType aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
DeclineHandshake	Grants permission to decline a handshake request. This sets the handshake state to DECLINED and effectively deactivates the request	Write	handshake*
DeleteOrganization	Grants permission to delete the organization	Write
DeleteOrganizationalUnit	Grants permission to delete an organizational unit from a root or another OU	Write	organizationalunit*
DeletePolicy	Grants permission to delete a policy from your organization	Write	policy*
				organizations:PolicyType
DeleteResourcePolicy	Grants permission to delete a resource policy from your organization	Write
DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator	Grants permission to deregister the specified member AWS account as a delegated administrator for the AWS service that is specified by ServicePrincipal	Write	account*
				organizations:ServicePrincipal
DescribeAccount	Grants permission to retrieve Organizations-related details about the specified account	Read	account*
DescribeCreateAccountStatus	Grants permission to retrieve the current status of an asynchronous request to create an account	Read
DescribeEffectivePolicy	Grants permission to retrieve the effective policy for an account	Read	account*
				organizations:PolicyType
DescribeHandshake	Grants permission to retrieve details about a previously requested handshake	Read	handshake*
DescribeOrganization	Grants permission to retrieves details about the organization that the calling credentials belong to	Read
DescribeOrganizationalUnit	Grants permission to retrieve details about an organizational unit (OU)	Read	organizationalunit*
DescribePolicy	Grants permission to retrieves details about a policy	Read	policy*
				organizations:PolicyType
DescribeResourcePolicy	Grants permission to retrieve information about a resource policy	Read
DetachPolicy	Grants permission to detach a policy from a target root, organizational unit, or account	Write	policy*
			account
			organizationalunit
			root
				organizations:PolicyType
DisableAWSServiceAccess	Grants permission to disable integration of an AWS service (the service that is specified by ServicePrincipal) with AWS Organizations	Write		organizations:ServicePrincipal
DisablePolicyType	Grants permission to disable an organization policy type in a root	Write	root*
				organizations:PolicyType
EnableAWSServiceAccess	Grants permission to enable integration of an AWS service (the service that is specified by ServicePrincipal) with AWS Organizations	Write		organizations:ServicePrincipal
EnableAllFeatures	Grants permission to start the process to enable all features in an organization, upgrading it from supporting only Consolidated Billing features	Write
EnablePolicyType	Grants permission to enable a policy type in a root	Write	root*
				organizations:PolicyType
InviteAccountToOrganization	Grants permission to send an invitation to another AWS account, asking it to join your organization as a member account	Write	account
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
LeaveOrganization	Grants permission to remove a member account from its parent organization	Write
ListAWSServiceAccessForOrganization	Grants permission to retrieve the list of the AWS services for which you enabled integration with your organization	List
ListAccounts	Grants permission to list all of the the accounts in the organization	List
ListAccountsForParent	Grants permission to list the accounts in an organization that are contained by a root or organizational unit (OU)	List	organizationalunit
			root
ListChildren	Grants permission to list all of the OUs or accounts that are contained in a parent OU or root	List	organizationalunit
			root
ListCreateAccountStatus	Grants permission to list the asynchronous account creation requests that are currently being tracked for the organization	List
ListDelegatedAdministrators	Grants permission to list the AWS accounts that are designated as delegated administrators in this organization	List		organizations:ServicePrincipal
ListDelegatedServicesForAccount	Grants permission to list the AWS services for which the specified account is a delegated administrator in this organization	List	account*
ListHandshakesForAccount	Grants permission to list all of the handshakes that are associated with an account	List
ListHandshakesForOrganization	Grants permission to list the handshakes that are associated with the organization	List
ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent	Grants permission to lists all of the organizational units (OUs) in a parent organizational unit or root	List	organizationalunit
			root
ListParents	Grants permission to list the root or organizational units (OUs) that serve as the immediate parent of a child OU or account	List	account
			organizationalunit
ListPolicies	Grants permission to list all of the policies in an organization	List		organizations:PolicyType
ListPoliciesForTarget	Grants permission to list all of the policies that are directly attached to a root, organizational unit (OU), or account	List	account
			organizationalunit
			root
				organizations:PolicyType
ListRoots	Grants permission to list all of the roots that are defined in the organization	List
ListTagsForResource	Grants permission to list all tags for the specified resource	List	account
			organizationalunit
			policy
			resourcepolicy
			root
ListTargetsForPolicy	Grants permission to list all the roots, OUs, and accounts to which a policy is attached	List	policy*
				organizations:PolicyType
MoveAccount	Grants permission to move an account from its current root or OU to another parent root or OU	Write	account*
			organizationalunit
			root
PutResourcePolicy	Grants permission to create or update a resource policy	Write	resourcepolicy*
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
RegisterDelegatedAdministrator	Grants permission to register the specified member account to administer the Organizations features of the AWS service that is specified by ServicePrincipal	Write	account*
				organizations:ServicePrincipal
RemoveAccountFromOrganization	Grants permission to removes the specified account from the organization	Write	account*
TagResource	Grants permission to add one or more tags to the specified resource	Tagging	account
			organizationalunit
			policy
			resourcepolicy
			root
				aws:TagKeys aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}
UntagResource	Grants permission to remove one or more tags from the specified resource	Tagging	account
			organizationalunit
			policy
			resourcepolicy
			root
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateOrganizationalUnit	Grants permission to rename an organizational unit (OU)	Write	organizationalunit*
UpdatePolicy	Grants permission to update an existing policy with a new name, description, or content	Write	policy*
				organizations:PolicyType

Resource types defined by AWS Organizations

The following resource types are defined by this service and can be used in the Resource element of IAM permission policy statements. Each action in the Actions table identifies the resource types that can be specified with that action. A resource type can also define which condition keys you can include in a policy. These keys are displayed in the last column of the Resource types table. For details about the columns in the following table, see Resource types table.

Resource types	ARN	Condition keys
account	arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:account/o-${OrganizationId}/${AccountId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
handshake	arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:handshake/o-${OrganizationId}/${HandshakeType}/h-${HandshakeId}
organization	arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:organization/o-${OrganizationId}
organizationalunit	arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:ou/o-${OrganizationId}/ou-${OrganizationalUnitId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
policy	arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:policy/o-${OrganizationId}/${PolicyType}/p-${PolicyId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
resourcepolicy	arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:resourcepolicy/o-${OrganizationId}/rp-${ResourcePolicyId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
awspolicy	arn:${Partition}:organizations::aws:policy/${PolicyType}/p-${PolicyId}
root	arn:${Partition}:organizations::${Account}:root/o-${OrganizationId}/r-${RootId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations defines the following condition keys that can be used in the Condition element of an IAM policy. You can use these keys to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies. For details about the columns in the following table, see Condition keys table.

To view the global condition keys that are available to all services, see Available global condition keys.

Condition keys	Description	Type
aws:RequestTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags that are passed in the request	String
aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}	Filters access by the tags associated with the resource	String
aws:TagKeys	Filters access by the tag keys that are passed in the request	ArrayOfString
organizations:PolicyType	Filters access by the specified policy type names	String
organizations:ServicePrincipal	Filters access by the specified service principal names	String