Cost Center

IAM provides system-defined identity policies to define common actions supported by cloud services. You can also create custom identity 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) for access control.

SCPs do not actually grant any permissions to a principal. They only set the permissions boundary for the principal. When SCPs are attached to a member account or an organizational unit (OU), they do not directly grant permissions to that member account or OU. Instead, the SCPs just determine what permissions are available for that member account or the member accounts under that OU. The granted permissions can be applied only if they are allowed by the SCPs.

To learn more about how IAM policies are different from Organizations SCPs, see What Are the Differences Between IAM Policies and Organizations SCPs?

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

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

Actions

Actions are specific operations that are allowed or denied in an identity 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 identity 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.
For details about the resource types defined by Cost Center, see Resources.
The Condition Key column contains keys that you can specify in the Condition element of an identity 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.
For details about the condition keys defined by Cost Center, see Conditions.
The Alias column lists the policy actions that are configured in identity policies. With these actions, you can use APIs for policy-based authorization. For details, see Policies and Identity Policies.

The following table lists the actions that you can define in identity policy statements for Cost Center.

**Table 1** Actions supported by Cost Center
Action	Description	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias
costCenter:costAnalysis:listCosts	Grants permission to view cost analyses.	read	-	-	bss:costanalysis:view
costCenter:costAnalysis:configReport	Grants permission to manage cost reports, including creating, modifying, and deleting custom reports.	write	-	-	bss:costreport:update
costCenter:costAnalysis:listReports	Grants permission to view a list of cost reports.	read	-	-	bss:costreport:view
costCenter:costDetail:listCostDetails	Grants permission to view cost details.	read	-	-	bss:costanalysis:view
costCenter:budget:configBudget	Grants permission to manage budgets, including creating, modifying, and deleting budgets.	write	-	-	bss:budget:update
costCenter:budget:viewBudget	Grants permission to view budget information, including the budget list and budget details.	read	-	-	bss:budget:view
costCenter:budget:deleteBudgetReport	Grants permission to delete a budget report.	write	-	-	bss:budgetreport:delete
costCenter:budget:configBudgetReport	Grants permission to add and modify a budget report.	write	-	-	bss:budgetreport:update
costCenter:budget:viewBudgetReport	Grants permission to view budget reports, including the report list and details.	read	-	-	bss:budgetreport:view
costCenter:costAnomalyDetection:deleteMonitor	Grants permission to delete a cost monitor.	write	-	-	bss:monitor:delete
costCenter:costAnomalyDetection:configMonitor	Grants permission to add and edit a cost monitor.	write	-	-	bss:monitor:update
costCenter:costAnomalyDetection:viewMonitor	Grants permission to view cost monitors and anomalies.	read	-	-	bss:monitor:view
costCenter:costAnomalyDetection:configMonitorAlert	Grants permission to configure alerting for cost anomalies.	write	-	-	bss:monitoralert:update
costCenter:costAnomalyDetection:viewMonitorAlert	Grants permission to view cost anomaly alerts.	read	-	-	bss:monitoralert:view
costCenter:recommendation:viewRecommendationSummary	Grants permission to view the summary of cost optimization recommendations.	read	-	-	bss:recommendation:view
costCenter:recommendation:viewRecommendationSubscription	Grants permission to query subscriptions to cost optimization recommendations.	read	-	-	bss:recommendationsub:view
costCenter:recommendation:configRecommendationSubscription	Grants permission to configure or delete subscriptions to cost optimization recommendations.	write	-	-	bss:recommendationsub:update
costCenter:recommendation:viewYearlyMonthlyRecommendation	Grants permission to view the cost optimization option of changing pay-per-use to yearly/monthly.	read	-	-	bss:costoptimization:view
costCenter:costTag:updateStatus	Grants permission to activate or deactivate cost tags.	write	-	-	bss:costtag:update
costCenter:costTag:listCostTags	Grants permission to view cost tags.	read	-	-	bss:costtag:view
costCenter:costCategory:deleteCostCategory	Grants permission to delete a cost category.	write	-	-	bss:costunit:delete
costCenter:costCategory:configCostCategory	Grants permission to configure cost categories, including creating and editing cost categories.	write	-	-	bss:costunit:update
costCenter:costCategory:viewCostCategory	Grants permission to view cost category information, including the cost category list and the details of each cost category.	read	-	-	bss:costunit:view
costCenter:savingsPlans:viewSavingsPlansAnalysis	Grants permission to view the analysis of savings plan utilization and coverage.	read	-	-	bss:savingsplan:analysis
costCenter:reserveInstance:viewRIAnalysis	Grants permission to view the analysis of reserved instance utilization and coverage.	read	-	-	bss:riusageanalysis:view
costCenter:savingsPlans:viewSavingsPlans	Grants permission to view savings plans.	read	-	-	bss:savingsplan:view
costCenter:recommendation:viewSavingsPlansRecommendation	Grants permission to view savings plans purchase recommendations.	read	-	-	bss:savingsplan:suggest
costCenter::updateCostConfig	Grants permission to enable Cost Center functions.	write	-	-	bss:costpreferences:update
costCenter:preference:delete	Grants permission to disable Cost Center functions.	write	-	-	bss:costpreferences:delete
costCenter:costdetailreport:viewReportTask	Grants permission to view the task list for exporting cost details to OBS.	read	-	-	bss:costdetailreport:view
costCenter:costdetailreport:configReportTask	Grants permission to create, modify, or delete the tasks of exporting cost details to OBS.	write	-	-	bss:costdetailreport:update
costCenter:helper:listCostAllocations	Grants permission to view the percentage of allocated costs.	list	-	-	bss:costhelper:viewcostallocations
costCenter:helper:viewCostRating	Grants permission to view cost allocation maturity rating.	read	-	-	bss:costhelper:viewcostrating
costCenter:costAnomalyDetection:provideFeedback	Grants permission to provide feedback on cost anomalies.	read	-	-	-

For details about the relationship between Cost Center APIs and actions, see Customer Operations.

Resources

Cost Center does not support resource-level authorization. To allow access to Cost Center, use a wildcard (*) in the Resource element of the identity policy, indicating that the policy will be applied to all resources.

Conditions

Cost Center does not support service-specific condition keys in identity policies. It can only use global condition keys applicable to all services. For details, see Global Condition Keys.

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