AWSControlTowerIdentityCenterManagementPolicy

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Mar 12, 2026

March 12, 2026 at 09:25 PM UTC

Version

v3

Total Versions

1

Created

Feb 12, 2026

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Risk

High

An unrestricted escalation path, identity administration, secret reads or the power to switch off security monitoring. Read from this policy document alone: trust policies, boundaries and SCPs in your account still decide what actually succeeds. How this is assessed

  • High

    Can change identities and their permissions

    Grants 8 permissions management actions on IAM, IAM Identity Center or Organizations, on any resource with no condition.

    sso-directory:creategroupsso-directory:createusersso:associateprofilesso:createapplicationinstancesso:createprofilesso:createtrustsso:updateprofilesso:updatetrust

    Use with caution: Grant it only to identity administrators, and protect your admin roles and SCPs with a permissions boundary or an SCP of their own.

Policy Document

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{
  "PolicyVersion": {
    "Document": {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "AllowIdentityCenterInstancePermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sso:ListPermissionSets"
          ],
          "Resource": "arn:aws:sso:::instance/*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowIdentityCenterManagementPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sso:DescribeRegisteredRegions",
            "sso:ListDirectoryAssociations",
            "sso:ListProfileAssociations",
            "sso:AssociateProfile",
            "sso:GetProfile",
            "sso:CreateProfile",
            "sso:UpdateProfile",
            "sso:GetTrust",
            "sso:CreateTrust",
            "sso:UpdateTrust",
            "sso:CreateApplicationInstance",
            "sso:GetApplicationInstance",
            "sso:GetSSOStatus"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
          "Sid": "AllowIdentityCenterDirectoryPermissions",
          "Effect": "Allow",
          "Action": [
            "sso-directory:SearchGroups",
            "sso-directory:CreateGroup",
            "sso-directory:SearchUsers",
            "sso-directory:CreateUser",
            "sso-directory:DescribeDirectory"
          ],
          "Resource": "*"
        }
      ]
    },
    "VersionId": "v3",
    "IsDefaultVersion": true,
    "CreateDate": "2026-02-12T18:00:23+00:00"
  }
}

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