Managing users and role assignments

On the User management page, you can manage AWS Partner Central users, role assignments, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role mapping.

Managing role assignments

On the Users tab of the User management page, you can manage role assignments for up to 10 users at a time. For best practices regarding role assignments, refer to AWS Partner Central permissions best practices.

Note

These instructions do not apply to the reassignment of the alliance lead role. To reassign the alliance lead role, refer to Reassigning the alliance lead role.

To assign, reassign, or remove roles

1. Sign in to AWS Partner Central as a user with the alliance lead or alliance team role.

2. On the My Company menu, choose User Management.

3. On the User management page, choose the Users tab.

4. In user list, select the check box next to the user name of the user you want to manage. You can choose up to 10 users.

5. Choose Manage roles.

6. In the Role assignments section, each user you selected displays in its own row. For each user, the roles they currently have display below the Role field.

   • To assign a new role to a user – To the right of the user name, choose a role from the Role(s) dropdown list.

   • To unassign a role – To the right of the user name, below the Role field, choose the X icon of the role you want to remove.

   • To configure roles for another user – Choose Manage another user.

   • To remove a user row from the current role-mapping group – Choose Remove. This does not remove a user from Partner Central, and their role assignments will not change. To remove a user from Partner Central, refer to Removing users.

7. After completing role assignments, choose Update.

Note

After you choose Update, the number of successful and failed role assignments display on the User management page. Partner Central will not make prohibited role assignments. For example, you cannot assign the alliance team role to more than 20 users. For more information, refer to AWS Partner Central roles.

Reassigning the alliance lead role

On the User management page, the alliance lead can reassign the role to another user. Only one user can have the alliance lead role at a time.

To reassign the alliance lead role

1. Sign in to AWS Partner Central as a user with the alliance lead role.

2. On the My Company menu, choose User Management.

3. On the User management page, choose the Users tab.

4. In the first column of the user list, select the checkbox of the user you want to make the new alliance lead.

5. Choose Reassign the alliance lead role.

6. On the alliance lead role management page, choose the new alliance lead user.

7. Choose Reassign.

8. On the Reassign alliance lead dialog box, enter confirm and choose Reassign.

Mapping Partner Central users to IAM roles

On the IAM roles tab, you can grant single sign-on access to the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP) to cloud admin and non-cloud admin partner users by assigning them an IAM role.

Prerequisites

You must complete the following before mapping users to IAM roles:

• Link your Partner Central account to an AWS Marketplace account.

• In the IAM console, a cloud admin user creates IAM roles with Marketplace permissions.

For more information, refer to Linking AWS Partner Central accounts with AWS Marketplace seller accounts.

To map Partner Central users to IAM roles

1. Sign in to AWS Partner Central as a user with the alliance lead or alliance team role.

2. On the My Company menu, choose User Management.

3. On the User management page, choose the IAM roles tab.

4. To map cloud admin users:

   1. Choose one or more users from the Cloud admin users list. This list contains your Partner Central users assigned the cloud admin role that need an IAM role assignment to have AWS Marketplace permissions.

   2. Choose Map to IAM role.

5. To map non-cloud admin partner users:

   1. Choose one or more users from the Available partner users list. This list contains your Partner Central users that do not have the cloud admin role but need an IAM role assignment to have AWS Marketplace permissions.

   2. Choose Map to IAM role.

Removing users

Removing a user permanently revokes a user's access to Partner Central and cannot be undone. To readd a removed user, you must reinvite them to register. Partner Central stores data for removed users.

Important

Before removing the user with the alliance lead role, reassign the role to another user. Refer to Reassigning the alliance lead role.

To remove a user

1. Sign in to AWS Partner Central as a user with the alliance lead or alliance team role.

2. On the My Company menu, choose User Management.

3. On the User management page, choose the Users tab.

4. In the user list, select the checkbox of the user you want to remove.

5. Choose Remove user.

6. On the Remove user dialog box, enter confirm and choose Remove.