We are setting up 4 projects on AWS. Each project has its own team. In some cases , a single person is working on multiple projects ,and is part of multiple teams.
We plan to setup 4 different AWS accounts , and add them in an organization. After that we need to send invites to our team from the account that has their project.
Is it possible to send email invites to people from our AWS account?
Can we add a single person , working on multiple projects, in multiple AWS accounts?
If its possible , how will it work for them, will they able to sign in to AWS using a single URL and see all the project resources , or do they need to sign in using different URLs (for each project)?
Creating IAM users in AWS account does not ask for any emails, thus there is no automated email notifications. You have to send such emails yourself.
Yes, one way would be to create for that user multiple users in each account. But I think better way would be to have only one IAM user for that person, and then create cross-account roles in other accounts which that user can assume. The roles can be assumed using AWS console or programmatically using AWS CLI or SDK. Access to the resources in other accounts would be controlled by the permissions defined in cross-account roles for that user.
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Let's assume in current AWS organization we have 2 developers accounts. From what I found it is a good practice to create a separate AWS account per environment and give access to these resources.
My question is:
What is the best way to share access to the resources (e.g. EC2, EKS, EFS) for multiple developers? Now I see only these two options:
Create a separate AWS account for each developer and allow to access some resources by applying roles to that developers AWS accounts.
Within a root account of each AWS environment create a IAM user account for each developer and from that point manage permissions by policies and user groups.
Please let me know. I appreciate any type of help! :)
You should setup AWS SSO. Either integrated with your existing identity provider, or using the built in user system.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/what-is.html
This will allow you to create permission sets. Then, you can assign permission sets to users in particular accounts. This will create a role in the account which the users can assume
We manage environments for different customers.
On Microsoft Azure is possible to the same user to be part of different Directories and Subscriptions.
It's all matter of invites and permissions.
Is it possible to use the same (email) account to manage environments in different organizations on AWS?
You can create an IAM user for the same person (email address) in multiple AWS accounts. To log into a different account, the person would use the login screen that corresponds to the account they want to access. This is how it works if you are creating IAM users in an account. They would not be linked, so to see a different account they would need to go to a different login url--and likely a separate password even though the email address may be the same. Essentially, they would be separate users in separate accounts, with no linkage.
For enterprises, you can use things like SAML authentication where users would authenticate with their own company, then go to a link like https://signin.aws.amazon.com/saml which will show all of the accounts to which they have access. Then it is just a matter of picking the account to which you want to connect.
See
https://aws.amazon.com/single-sign-on/?org_product_ft_sso
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_providers_enable-console-saml.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_introduction.html
I have a personal AWS account, and I was also added as an IAM user on another organization's account to access their ec2 resources.
Is there an easier way to switch between these two accounts from the website https://console.aws.amazon.com/?
Right now, I have to go to the separate URLs for each of my accounts that are in the form https://78xxxxxxxxxxx.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
But is there a way to switch from inside the AWS console itself without having to bookmark those URLs and re-type in my password to switch between them?
It seems that AWS lets you switch between different roles very easily, but this doesn't seem to work across accounts? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-cross-account-access-in-the-aws-management-console/
If you have multiple accounts and they are inside the same organization, you can use SSO login to access multiple accounts without typing the password as long as you have the correct permission to access them.
In the AWS IAM Identity Center(SSO) you can assign the permission sets to different accounts,
And the left side the Dashboard section has the SSO URL AWS access portal URL which will show you the multiple accounts
Reference Links: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/useraccess.html
If each of the accounts belong to separate AWS organizations, they'll have separate URLs. The cross-account role switching applies to multiple accounts under a single AWS organization.
I have a question.
I would like to manage multiple accounts and users using an AWS API (SDK).
So is it possible to use AWS Organization in order to manage account and get access to a list of users ?
I mean i put AWS Organization connect to AWS SSO to manage multiple accounts, so can i manage accounts and users through the AWS SDK or i have to add another components ?
Any AWS SDK's Organization client will let you List, Add, Remove(Check condition to remove any account form org), Move to different OU under the same Org, etc.
But in order to list all users under a linked account, you have to use the IAM client of that account.
1- Create a role(with admin permission) let say XRole in all linked accounts and with the trust policy for the master account.
2- From Master account assume the role( XRole ) of linked account and manage/list your account's users using IAM Client.
I would like to write a policy for a new IAM user so that he can have a full access to AWS Services such as EC2, RDS, Cloud Front, S3, etc. However he should be only able to view (describe) and manage the instances/services that he launches. He can't see other existing/future instances/services created by other users.
This case happens in a company that wants to outsource some projects to an outsourced company. So the new IAM user is for giving access to the outsourced company to setup the staging & production environments in AWS that belongs to the company. How can I achieve this?
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Mark
AFAICT there are no conditions on creator.
One obvious alternative is having a separated dependent and linked account with consolidated billing. You can find some detail in the third scenario of this paper
https://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_Setting_Up_Multiuser_Environments_Education.pdf
[...] an administrator creates separate AWS accounts for each user who
needs a new AWS account. These accounts can optionally be linked
together and a single AWS account can be designated as the paying
account using consolidated billing, which provides a single bill for
multiple AWS accounts. The administrator then creates an IAM user in
each AWS account and applies an access control policy to each user.
Users are given access to the IAM user within their AWS account, but
do not have access to the root credentials of the AWS account.
Users can log into the AWS Management Console with their IAM
credentials and then they can launch and access different AWS
services, subject to the access control policies applied to their
account. Users have direct control over the access credentials for
their resources and they can also share these resources with other
users as necessary.