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Setting up Amazon CodeWhisperer for
administrators
This section describes the setup procedures that are necessary before a developer can use CodeWhisperer Professional.
In this context, a professional developer is a developer who works for a business (enterprise) that has an AWS account.
Here is a summary of the procedures described on this page. If you are a regular AWS user, then you may have already completed one or more of these procedures in connection with another AWS service.
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The root user comes built-in with your AWS account.
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The root user creates the permission set for the AWS Organizations administrator.
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The root user adds that permission set to the Organizations administrator.
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The Organizations administrator adds users.
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The Organizations administrator authorizes the CodeWhisperer administrator to manage CodeWhisperer.
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The CodeWhisperer administrator authorizes the enterprise developers to use CodeWhisperer.
For more information about the different personas that may use CodeWhisperer see Types of users for CodeWhisperer.
