License Manager – User-based subscription role

License Manager requires a service-linked role for managing AWS resources that will provide user-based subscriptions.

Permissions for the user-based subscription role

The service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerUserSubscriptionsService allows License Manager to utilize AWS Systems Manager and manage Amazon EC2 resources providing user-based subscriptions, as well as describe AWS Directory Service resources.

To review permissions for the AWSLicenseManagerUserSubscriptionsServiceRolePolicy, see AWS managed policy: AWSLicenseManagerUserSubscriptionsServiceRolePolicy. To learn more about configuring permissions for a service-linked role, see Service-Linked Role Permissions in the IAM User Guide.

Create the service-linked role for License Manager

You don't need to manually create the service-linked role as you will be prompted on the License Manager console User-based subscriptions pages to create the role.

If you delete this service-linked role and then need to create it again, you can use the same process to recreate the role in your account.

You can also use the IAM console, AWS CLI, or IAM API to create a service-linked role manually. For more information, see Creating a Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.

You can use the License Manager console to create a service-linked role.

To create the service-linked role

1. Open the License Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/license-manager/.

2. In the left navigation pane, choose User Association or Products.

3. Agree to the terms for License Manager to create the user-based subscription role.

4. Choose Create. This creates the role.

You can also use the IAM console to create a service-linked role with the License Manager - User-based subscriptions use case. Alternatively, in the AWS CLI or AWS API, create a service-linked role with the license-manager-user-subscriptions.amazonaws.com service name. For more information, see Creating a Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.

If you delete this service-linked role, you can use the same IAM process to create the role again.

Edit a service-linked role for License Manager

License Manager does not allow you to edit the AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerUserSubscriptionsService service-linked role. After you create a service-linked role, you cannot change the name of the role because various entities might reference the role. However, you can edit the description of the role using IAM. For more information, see Editing a Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.

Delete a service-linked role for License Manager

If you no longer need to use a feature or service that requires a service-linked role, we recommend that you delete that role. That way, you only have entities that are actively monitored or maintained. However, you must clean up your service-linked role before you can manually delete it.

Manually delete the service-linked role

Use the IAM console, AWS CLI, or AWS API to delete the AWSServiceRoleForAWSLicenseManagerUserSubscriptionsService service-linked role. For more information, see Deleting a Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.