Using service-linked roles for Strategy Recommendations

Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations uses AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles. A service-linked role is a unique type of IAM role that is linked directly to Strategy Recommendations. Service-linked roles are predefined by Strategy Recommendations and include all the permissions that the service requires to call other AWS services on your behalf.

A service-linked role makes setting up Strategy Recommendations easier because you don’t have to manually add the necessary permissions. Strategy Recommendations defines the permissions of its service-linked roles, and unless defined otherwise, only Strategy Recommendations can assume its roles. The defined permissions include the trust policy and the permissions policy, and that permissions policy cannot be attached to any other IAM entity.

For information about other services that support service-linked roles, see AWS Services That Work with IAM and look for the services that have Yes in the Service-Linked Role column. Choose a Yes with a link to view the service-linked role documentation for that service.

Service-linked role permissions for Strategy Recommendations

Strategy Recommendations uses the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForMigrationHubStrategy and associates it with AWSMigrationHubStrategyServiceRolePolicy IAM policy – Provides access to AWS Migration Hub and AWS Application Discovery Service. This policy also grants permissions for storing reports in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

The AWSServiceRoleForMigrationHubStrategy service-linked role trusts the following services to assume the role:

The role permissions policy allows Strategy Recommendations to complete the following actions.

To view the permissions for this policy, see AWSMigrationHubStrategyServiceRolePolicy in the AWS Managed Policy Reference Guide.

To view the update history of this policy, see Strategy Recommendations updates to AWS managed policies.

You must configure permissions to allow an IAM entity (such as a user, group, or role) to create, edit, or delete a service-linked role. For more information, see Service-Linked Role Permissions in the IAM User Guide.

Creating a service-linked role for Strategy Recommendations

You don't need to manually create a service-linked role. When you agree to allow Migration Hub to create a service-linked role (SLR) in your account in the AWS Management Console, Strategy Recommendations creates the service-linked role for you.

If you delete this service-linked role, and then need to create it again, you can use the same process to recreate the role in your account. When you agree to allow Migration Hub to create a service-linked role (SLR) in your account, Strategy Recommendations creates the service-linked role for you again.

Editing a service-linked role for Strategy Recommendations

Strategy Recommendations does not allow you to edit the AWSServiceRoleForMigrationHubStrategy service-linked role. After you create a service-linked role, you cannot change the name of the role because various entities might reference the role. However, you can edit the description of the role using the Strategy Recommendations console, CLI, or API.

Deleting a service-linked role for Strategy Recommendations

To manually delete the service-linked role using IAM

Use the IAM console, the AWS CLI, or the AWS API to delete the AWSServiceRoleForMigrationHubStrategy service-linked role. For more information, see Deleting a Service-Linked Role in the IAM User Guide.

When deleting Strategy Recommendations resources used by the AWSServiceRoleForMigrationHubStrategy SLR, you cannot have any running assessments (tasks for generating recommendations). No background assessments can be running, either. If assessments are running, the SLR deletion fails in the IAM console. If the SLR deletion fails, you can retry the deletion after all background tasks have completed. You don’t need to clean up any created resources before you delete the SLR.

Supported Regions for Strategy Recommendations service-linked roles

Strategy Recommendations supports using service-linked roles in all of the regions where the service is available. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints.