Actions Supported by Policy-based Authorization

Updated on 2025-02-20 GMT+08:00

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IAM provides system-defined policies to define common actions supported by cloud services. You can also create custom policies using the actions supported by cloud services for more refined access control.

In addition to IAM, the Organizations service also provides Service Control Policies (SCPs) to set access control policies.

The organization's management account can use SCPs to ensure your member accounts stay within your organization's access and control guidelines. They can be attached to an organization, OUs, or member accounts. Any SCP attached to an organization or OU affects all the accounts within the organization or under the OU. The granted permissions can be applied only if they are allowed by the SCPs.

This section describes the elements used by IAM custom policies and Organizations SCPs. The elements include actions, resources, and conditions.

For details about how to use these elements to edit an IAM custom policy, see Creating a Custom Policy.
For details about how to use these elements to edit a custom SCP, see Creating an SCP.

Actions

Actions are specific operations that are allowed or denied in a policy.

The Access Level column describes how the action is classified (such as list, read, or write). This classification helps you understand the level of access that an action grants when you use it in a policy.
The Resource Type column indicates whether the action supports resource-level permissions.
- You can use a wildcard (*) to indicate all resource types. If this column is empty (-), the action does not support resource-level permissions and you must specify all resources ("*") in your policy statements.
- If this column includes a resource type, you must specify the URN in the Resource element of your statements.
- Required resources are marked with asterisks (*) in the table. If you specify a resource in a statement using this action, then it must be of this type.
The Condition Key column includes keys that you can specify in the Condition element of a policy statement.
- If the Resource Type column has values for an action, the condition key takes effect only for the listed resource types.
- If the Resource Type column is empty (-) for an action, the condition key takes effect for all resources that action supports.
- If the Condition Key column is empty (-) for an action, the action does not support any condition keys.

The following table lists the actions that you can define in custom policies for RGC.

**Table 1** Actions supported by RGC
Action	Description	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key
rgc:control:list	Grants permission to list all governance policies.	list	-	-
rgc:controlViolation:list	Grants permission to list non-compliance.	list	-	-
rgc:control:get	Grants permission to get details about a governance policy.	read	-	-
rgc:control:enable	Grants permission to enable a governance policy.	write	-	-
rgc:control:disable	Grants permission to disable a governance policy.	write	-	-
rgc:controlOperate:get	Grants permission to query the status of a governance policy.	read	-	-
rgc:enabledControl:list	Grants permission to list enabled governance policies.	list	-	-
rgc:controlsForOrganizationalUnit:list	Grants permission to list governance policies enabled for a registered OU.	list	-	-
rgc:controlsForAccount:list	Grants permission to list governance policies enabled for an enrolled account.	list	-	-
rgc:complianceStatusForAccount:get	Grants permission to query the resource compliance status of an enrolled account in an organization.	read	-	-
rgc:complianceStatusForOrganizationalUnit:get	Grants permission to query the resource compliance status of all enrolled accounts under a registered OU in an organization.	read	-	-
rgc:controlsForOrganizationalUnit:get	Grants permission to list governance policies enabled for an OU.	read	-	-
rgc:controlsForAccount:get	Grants permission to list governance policies enabled for an account.	read	-	-
rgc:configRuleCompliance:list	Grants permission to query the Config rule compliance for enrolled accounts.	list	-	-
rgc:externalConfigRuleCompliance:list	Grants permission to list the external Config rule compliance for enrolled accounts.	list	-	-
rgc:driftDetail:list	Grants permission to query drift details.	list	-	-
rgc:managedOrganizationalUnit:register	Grants permission to register an OU.	write	-	-
rgc:managedOrganizationalUnit:reRegister	Grants permission to re-register an OU.	write	-	-
rgc:managedOrganizationalUnit:deRegister	Grants permission to deregister an OU.	write	-	-
rgc:operation:get	Grants permission to obtain registration information.	read	-	-
rgc:managedOrganizationalUnit:delete	Grants permission to delete a registered OU.	write	-	-
rgc:managedOrganizationalUnit:get	Grants permission to get details of a registered OU.	read	-	-
rgc:managedOrganizationalUnit:create	Grants permission to create an OU.	write	-	-
rgc:managedOrganizationalUnit:list	Grants permission to list registered OUs for which governance policies are enabled.	list	-	-
rgc:managedAccount:enroll	Grants permission to enroll an account.	write	-	-
rgc:managedAccount:unEnroll	Grants permission to unmanage an account.	write	-	-
rgc:managedAccount:update	Grants permission to update an enrolled account.	write	-	-
rgc:managedAccount:get	Grants permission to get details of an enrolled account.	read	-	-
rgc:managedAccountsForParent:list	Grants permission to list all enrolled accounts in a registered OU.	list	-	-
rgc:managedAccount:create	Grants permission to create an account.	write	-	-
rgc:managedAccount:list	Grants permission to list enrolled accounts for which governance policies are enabled.	list	-	-
rgc:managedCoreAccount:get	Grants permission to get details of an enrolled core account.	read	-	-
rgc:homeRegion:get	Grants permission to identify the home region.	read	-	-
rgc:preLaunch:check	Grants permission to perform pre-checks before landing zone setup.	write	-	-
rgc:landingZone:setup	Grants permission to set up a landing zone.	write	-	-
rgc:landingZone:delete	Grants permission to delete a landing zone.	write	-	-
rgc:landingZoneStatus:get	Grants permission to query the landing zone setup status.	read	-	-
rgc:availableUpdate:get	Grants permission to query the updateable status of a landing zone.	read	-	-
rgc:landingZoneConfiguration:get	Grants permission to query landing zone settings.	read	-	-
rgc:landingZoneIdentityCenter:get	Grants permission to obtain IAM Identity Center user information.	read	-	-
rgc:operation:list	Grants permission to query the status of a registered OU or an enrolled account.	list	-	-
rgc:templateDeployParam:get	Grants permission to obtain template deployment parameters.	read	-	-
rgc:template:create	Grants permission to create a template.	write	-	-
rgc:template:delete	Grants permission to delete a template.	write	-	-
rgc:predefinedTemplate:list	Grants permission to list preset templates.	list	-	-
rgc:managedAccountTemplate:get	Grants permission to get details of a template for enrolled accounts.	read	-	-

Each API of RGC usually supports one or more actions. Table 2 lists the supported actions and dependencies.

**Table 2** Actions and dependencies supported by RGC APIs
API	Action	Dependencies
POST /v1/managed-organizational/organizational-unit/{organizational_unit_id}/register	rgc:organizationalUnit:register	-
GET /v1/managed-organizational/{operation_id}	rgc:operation:get	-
GET /v1/managed-organizational/managed-account/{managed_account_id}	rgc:managedAccount:get	-
POST /v1/managed-organizational/managed-accounts	rgc:account:create	-
POST /v1/governance/control/enable	rgc:control:enable	-
POST /v1/governance/control/disable	rgc:control:disable	-
GET /v1/governance/operated-controls/{control_operate_request_id}	rgc:controlOperate:get	-
GET /v1/governance/enabled-controls	rgc:enabledControls:list	-
GET /v1/governance/managed-organizational-unit/{managed_organizational_unit_id}/controls	rgc:controlsForOrganizationalUnit:list	-

Resources

RGC does not support resource-specific permission control in policies. If you want to allow access to RGC, use the wildcard (*) for the Resource element to apply policies to all resources.