Granting Lambda layer access to other accounts

To share a layer with another AWS account, add a cross-account permissions statement to the layer's resource-based policy. Run the add-layer-version-permission command and specify the account ID as the principal. In each statement, you can grant permission to a single account, all accounts, or an organization in AWS Organizations.

The following example grants account 111122223333 access to version 2 of the bash-runtime layer.

aws lambda add-layer-version-permission \
  --layer-name bash-runtime \
  --version-number 2 \  
  --statement-id xaccount \
  --action lambda:GetLayerVersion \
  --principal 111122223333 \
  --output text

You should see output similar to the following:

{"Sid":"xaccount","Effect":"Allow","Principal":{"AWS":"arn:aws:iam::111122223333:root"},"Action":"lambda:GetLayerVersion","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:layer:bash-runtime:2"}

Permissions apply only to a single layer version. Repeat the process each time that you create a new layer version.

To grant permission to all accounts in an AWS Organizations organization, use the organization-id option. The following example grants all accounts in organization o-t194hfs8cz permission to use version 3 of my-layer.

aws lambda add-layer-version-permission \
  --layer-name my-layer \
  --version-number 3 \
  --statement-id engineering-org \
  --principal '*' \
  --action lambda:GetLayerVersion \
  --organization-id o-t194hfs8cz \
  --output text

You should see the following output:

{"Sid":"engineering-org","Effect":"Allow","Principal":"*","Action":"lambda:GetLayerVersion","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:3","Condition":{"StringEquals":{"aws:PrincipalOrgID":"o-t194hfs8cz"}}}"

To grant permission to multiple accounts or organizations, you must add multiple statements.