Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower (service prefix: controltower) 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 Control Tower

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
CreateLandingZone	Grants permission to create a landing zone	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	controltower:TagResource
CreateManagedAccount [permission only]	Grants permission to create an account managed by AWS Control Tower	Write
DeleteLandingZone	Grants permission to delete AWS Control Tower landing zone	Write	LandingZone*
DeregisterManagedAccount [permission only]	Grants permission to deregister an account created through the account factory from AWS Control Tower	Write
DeregisterOrganizationalUnit [permission only]	Grants permission to deregister an organizational unit from AWS Control Tower management	Write
DescribeAccountFactoryConfig [permission only]	Grants permission to describe the current account factory configuration	Read
DescribeCoreService [permission only]	Grants permission to describe resources managed by core accounts in AWS Control Tower	Read
DescribeGuardrail [permission only]	Grants permission to describe a guardrail	Read
DescribeGuardrailForTarget [permission only]	Grants permission to describe a guardrail for a organizational unit	Read
DescribeLandingZoneConfiguration [permission only]	Grants permission to describe the current Landing Zone configuration	Read
DescribeManagedAccount [permission only]	Grants permission to describe an account created through account factory	Read
DescribeManagedOrganizationalUnit [permission only]	Grants permission to describe an AWS Organizations organizational unit managed by AWS Control Tower	Read
DescribeRegisterOrganizationalUnitOperation [permission only]	Grants permission to describe a Register Organizational Unit Operation	Read
DescribeSingleSignOn [permission only]	Grants permission to describe the current AWS Control Tower IAM Identity Center configuration	Read
DisableBaseline	Grants permission to disable a Baseline on a target	Write	EnabledBaseline*
DisableControl	Grants permission to remove a control from an organizational unit	Write	EnabledControl*
DisableGuardrail [permission only]	Grants permission to disable a guardrail from an organizational unit	Write
EnableBaseline	Grants permission to enable a Baseline on a target	Write		aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys	controltower:TagResource
EnableControl	Grants permission to activate a control for an organizational unit	Write	EnabledControl		controltower:TagResource
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
EnableGuardrail [permission only]	Grants permission to enable a guardrail to an organizational unit	Write
GetAccountInfo [permission only]	Grants permission to describe an account email and validate that it exists	Read
GetAvailableUpdates [permission only]	Grants permission to list available updates for the current AWS Control Tower deployment	Read
GetBaseline	Grants permission to get Baseline details	Read	Baseline*
GetBaselineOperation	Grants permission to get the current status of a particular Baseline operation	Read
GetControlOperation	Grants permission to get the current status of a particular EnabledControl or DisableControl operation	Read
GetEnabledBaseline	Grants permission to get an enabled Baseline	Read	EnabledBaseline*
GetEnabledControl	Grants permission to get an enabled control from an organizational unit	Read	EnabledControl*
GetGuardrailComplianceStatus [permission only]	Grants permission to get the current compliance status of a guardrail	Read
GetHomeRegion [permission only]	Grants permission to get the home region of the AWS Control Tower setup	Read
GetLandingZone	Grants permission to get the current status of the landing zone setup	Read	LandingZone*
GetLandingZoneDriftStatus	Grants permission to get the current landing zone drift status	Read
GetLandingZoneOperation	Grants permission to get the current status of a particular landing zone operation	Read
GetLandingZoneStatus [permission only]	Grants permission to get the current status of the landing zone setup	Read
ListBaselines	Grants permission to list Baselines	List
ListControlOperations	Grants permission to list all control operations	List
ListDirectoryGroups [permission only]	Grants permission to list the current directory groups available through IAM Identity Center	List
ListDriftDetails	Grants permission to list occurrences of drift in AWS Control Tower	Read
ListEnabledBaselines	Grants permission to list enabled Baselines	List
ListEnabledControls	Grants permission to list all enabled controls in a specified organizational unit	List
ListEnabledGuardrails [permission only]	Grants permission to list currently enabled guardrails	List
ListExtendGovernancePrecheckDetails [permission only]	Grants permission to list Precheck details for an Organizational Unit	List
ListExternalConfigRuleCompliance	Grants permission to list the compliance of external AWS Config rules	Read
ListGuardrailViolations [permission only]	Grants permission to list existing guardrail violations	List
ListGuardrails [permission only]	Grants permission to list all available guardrails	List
ListGuardrailsForTarget [permission only]	Grants permission to list guardrails and their current state for a organizational unit	List
ListLandingZoneOperations	Grants permission to list all landing zone operations	List
ListLandingZones	Grants permission to list all landing zones	List
ListManagedAccounts [permission only]	Grants permission to list accounts managed through AWS Control Tower	List
ListManagedAccountsForGuardrail [permission only]	Grants permission to list managed accounts with a specified guardrail applied	List
ListManagedAccountsForParent [permission only]	Grants permission to list managed accounts under an organizational unit	List
ListManagedOrganizationalUnits [permission only]	Grants permission to list organizational units managed by AWS Control Tower	List
ListManagedOrganizationalUnitsForGuardrail [permission only]	Grants permission to list managed organizational units that have a specified guardrail applied	List
ListTagsForResource	Grants permission to list the tags for a resource	Read	EnabledBaseline
			EnabledControl
			LandingZone
ManageOrganizationalUnit [permission only]	Grants permission to set up an organizational unit to be managed by AWS Control Tower	Write
PerformPreLaunchChecks [permission only]	Grants permission to perform validations in an account	Read
ResetEnabledBaseline	Grants permission to reset an enabled Baseline	Write	EnabledBaseline*
ResetLandingZone	Grants permission to reset a landing zone	Write	LandingZone*
SetupLandingZone [permission only]	Grants permission to set up or update AWS Control Tower landing zone	Write
TagResource	Grants permission to add tags to a resource	Tagging	EnabledBaseline
			EnabledControl
			LandingZone
				aws:RequestTag/${TagKey} aws:TagKeys
UntagResource	Grants permission to remove tags from a resource	Tagging	EnabledBaseline
			EnabledControl
			LandingZone
				aws:TagKeys
UpdateAccountFactoryConfig [permission only]	Grants permission to update the account factory configuration	Write
UpdateEnabledBaseline	Grants permission to update an enabled Baseline	Write	EnabledBaseline*
UpdateEnabledControl	Grants permission to update an enabled control for an organizational unit	Write	EnabledControl*
UpdateLandingZone	Grants permission to update a landing zone	Write	LandingZone*

Resource types defined by AWS Control Tower

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
EnabledControl	arn:${Partition}:controltower:${Region}:${Account}:enabledcontrol/${EnabledControlId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
Baseline	arn:${Partition}:controltower:${Region}::baseline/${BaselineId}
EnabledBaseline	arn:${Partition}:controltower:${Region}:${Account}:enabledbaseline/${EnabledBaselineId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}
LandingZone	arn:${Partition}:controltower:${Region}:${Account}:landingzone/${LandingZoneId}	aws:ResourceTag/${TagKey}

Condition keys for AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower 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