Registering a delegated administrator

You can register a delegated administrator for Capacity Manager. This allows a member account to manage Capacity Manager for your AWS Organization. Only the management account can register or remove a delegated administrator within your organization.

Note

You can’t disable Capacity Manager for your organization while there is a registered delegated administrator.

Prerequisites

Your management account must have enabled Capacity Manager with AWS Organizations. For more information, see Enabling EC2 Capacity Manager with AWS Organizations.

Register a delegated administrator

You can register a delegated administrator using the Amazon EC2 console or the AWS CLI.

Console

To register a delegated administrator

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Capacity Manager.

3. Choose the Settings tab.

4. In the Delegated administrator section, choose Add.

5. In the prompt that appears, enter the account ID of the organization member you want to add as a delegated administrator.

6. Choose Add delegated administrator.

AWS CLI

To register a delegated administrator

Run the following command:

aws organizations register-delegated-administrator \
    --account-id 123456789012 \
    --service-principal ec2.capacitymanager.amazonaws.com
                  

Remove a delegated administrator

You can remove a delegated administrator using the Amazon EC2 console or the AWS CLI.

Console

To remove a delegated administrator

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Capacity Manager.

3. Choose the Settings tab.

4. In the Delegated administrator section, choose Manage.

5. In the prompt that appears, choose Remove delegated administrator.

AWS CLI

To remove a delegated administrator

Run the following command:

aws organizations deregister-delegated-administrator \
    --account-id 123456789012 \
    --service-principal ec2.capacitymanager.amazonaws.com