AWS Well-Architected Tool and AWS Organizations - AWS Organizations

AWS Well-Architected Tool and AWS Organizations

The AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you document the state of your workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices.

Using AWS Well-Architected Tool with Organizations enables both AWS Well-Architected Tool and Organizations customers to simplify the process of sharing AWS Well-Architected Tool resources with other members of their organization.

For more information, see Sharing your AWS Well-Architected Tool resources in the AWS Well-Architected Tool User Guide.

Use the following information to help you integrate AWS Well-Architected Tool with AWS Organizations.

Service-linked roles created when you enable integration

The following service-linked role is automatically created in your organization's management account when you enable trusted access. This role allows AWS WA Tool to perform supported operations within your organization's accounts in your organization.

You can delete or modify this role only if you disable trusted access between AWS WA Tool and Organizations, or if you remove the member account from the organization.

  • AWSServiceRoleForWellArchitected

The service role policy is AWSWellArchitectedOrganizationsServiceRolePolicy

Service principals used by the service-linked roles

The service-linked role in the previous section can be assumed only by the service principals authorized by the trust relationships defined for the role. The service-linked roles used by AWS WA Tool grant access to the following service principals:

  • wellarchitected.amazonaws.com

Enabling trusted access with AWS WA Tool

Allows the updating of AWS WA Tool to reflect hierarchical changes in an organization.

For information about the permissions needed to enable trusted access, see Permissions required to enable trusted access.

You can enable trusted access using either the AWS Well-Architected Tool console or the AWS Organizations console.

Important

We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the AWS Well-Architected Tool console or tools to enable integration with Organizations. This lets AWS Well-Architected Tool perform any configuration that it requires, such as creating resources needed by the service. Proceed with these steps only if you can’t enable integration using the tools provided by AWS Well-Architected Tool. For more information, see this note.

If you enable trusted access by using the AWS Well-Architected Tool console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.

To enable trusted access using the AWS WA Tool console

See Sharing your AWS Well-Architected Tool resources in the AWS Well-Architected Tool User Guide.

You can enable trusted access by using either the AWS Organizations console, by running a AWS CLI command, or by calling an API operation in one of the AWS SDKs.

AWS Management Console
To enable trusted service access using the Organizations console
  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Services.

  3. Choose AWS Well-Architected Tool in the list of services.

  4. Choose Enable trusted access.

  5. In the Enable trusted access for AWS Well-Architected Tool dialog box, type enable to confirm, and then choose Enable trusted access.

  6. If you are the administrator of only AWS Organizations, tell the administrator of AWS Well-Architected Tool that they can now enable that service to work with AWS Organizations from the service console .

AWS CLI, AWS API
To enable trusted service access using the OrganizationsCLI/SDK

Use the following AWS CLI commands or API operations to enable trusted service access:

  • AWS CLI: enable-aws-service-access

    Run the following command to enable AWS Well-Architected Tool as a trusted service with Organizations.

    $ aws organizations enable-aws-service-access \ --service-principal wellarchitected.amazonaws.com

    This command produces no output when successful.

  • AWS API: EnableAWSServiceAccess

Disabling trusted access with AWS WA Tool

For information about the permissions needed to disable trusted access, see Permissions required to disable trusted access.

You can disable trusted access using either the AWS Well-Architected Tool or the AWS Organizations tools.

Important

We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the AWS Well-Architected Tool console or tools to disable integration with Organizations. This lets AWS Well-Architected Tool perform any clean up that it requires, such as deleting resources or access roles that are no longer needed by the service. Proceed with these steps only if you can’t disable integration using the tools provided by AWS Well-Architected Tool.

If you disable trusted access by using the AWS Well-Architected Tool console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.

To disable trusted access using the AWS WA Tool console

See Sharing your AWS Well-Architected Tool resources in the AWS Well-Architected Tool User Guide.

You can disable trusted access by running a Organizations AWS CLI command, or by calling an Organizations API operation in one of the AWS SDKs.

AWS CLI, AWS API
To disable trusted service access using the Organizations CLI/SDK

Use the following AWS CLI commands or API operations to disable trusted service access:

  • AWS CLI: disable-aws-service-access

    Run the following command to disable AWS Well-Architected Tool as a trusted service with Organizations.

    $ aws organizations disable-aws-service-access \ --service-principal wellarchitected.amazonaws.com

    This command produces no output when successful.

  • AWS API: DisableAWSServiceAccess