cloudformation:ActivateOrganizationsAccess

AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as cloudformation:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.

Policies (any)

12

Allow (Action)

1

Allow (wildcard)

11

Deny (Action)

0

NotAction

0

572 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service). A wildcard also covers actions AWS adds later, without a new policy version. Index regenerated on every deploy.

First seen

From archive history

This action

2025-10-10 in AWSControlTowerServiceRolePolicy

Service prefix cloudformation

Already present when the archive began

Earliest appearance in any AWS managed policy tracked here, not an official AWS launch date. Matched case-insensitively, as IAM does.

Action reference

SAR-style (unofficial)

Service: AWS CloudFormation & Cloud Control API

Access level

Write

Description

Grants permission to activate trusted access between StackSets and Organizations. With trusted access between StackSets and Organizations activated, the management account has permissions to create and manage StackSets for your organization

Dependent actions

  • iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole
  • iam:GetRole

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

Deny (Action)

None

NotAction

None

Thanks to Ian McKay for iam-dataset (MIT), structured data derived from the AWS Service Authorization Reference. Not maintained by AWS and not guaranteed current. IAMTrail's managed policy archive is separate.

Definitions bundle regenerated on every deploy