AWS Application Migration Service (Application Migration Service) and AWS Organizations
AWS Application Migration Service simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of migrating applications to AWS. By integrating with Organizations, you can use the global view feature to manage large-scale migrations across multiple accounts. For more information see Setting up your AWS Organizations in the Application Migration Service user guide.
Use the following information to help you integrate AWS Application Migration Service with AWS Organizations.
Service-linked roles created when you enable integration
The following service-linked role is automatically created in your organization's management account when you enable trusted access. This role allows Application Migration Service to perform supported operations within your organization's accounts in your organization.
You can delete or modify this role only if you disable trusted access between Application Migration Service and Organizations, or if you remove the member account from the organization.
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AWSServiceRoleForApplicationMigrationService
Service principals used by Application Migration Service
The service-linked role in the previous section can be assumed only by the service principals authorized by the trust relationships defined for the role. The service-linked roles used by Application Migration Service grant access to the following service principals:
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mgn.amazonaws.com
Enabling trusted access with Application Migration Service
When you enable trusted access with Application Migration Service you can use the global view feature, which allows you to manage large-scale migrations across multiple accounts. Global view provides visibility and the ability to perform specific actions on source servers, apps, and waves in different AWS accounts. For more information, see Setting up your AWS Organizations in the AWS Application Migration Service user guide.
For information about the permissions needed to enable trusted access, see Permissions required to enable trusted access.
You can enable trusted access using either the AWS Application Migration Service console or the AWS Organizations console.
Important
We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the AWS Application Migration Service console or tools to enable integration with Organizations. This lets AWS Application Migration Service perform any configuration that it requires, such as creating resources needed by the service. Proceed with these steps only if you can’t enable integration using the tools provided by AWS Application Migration Service. For more information, see this note.
If you enable trusted access by using the AWS Application Migration Service console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.
You can enable trusted access by using either the AWS Organizations console, by running a AWS CLI command, or by calling an API operation in one of the AWS SDKs.
Disabling trusted access with Application Migration Service
Only an administrator in the Organizations management account can disable trusted access with Application Migration Service.
You can disable trusted access using either the AWS Application Migration Service or AWS Organizations tools.
Important
We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the AWS Application Migration Service console or tools to disable integration with Organizations. This lets AWS Application Migration Service perform any clean up that it requires, such as deleting resources or access roles that are no longer needed by the service. Proceed with these steps only if you can’t disable integration using the tools provided by AWS Application Migration Service.
If you disable trusted access by using the AWS Application Migration Service console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.
You can disable trusted access by using either the AWS Organizations console, by running an Organizations AWS CLI command, or by calling an Organizations API operation in one of the AWS SDKs.
Enabling a delegated administrator account for Application Migration Service
When you designate a member account as a delegated administrator for the organization, users and roles from that account can perform administrative actions for Application Migration Service that otherwise can be performed only by users or roles in the organization's management account. This helps you to separate management of the organization from management of Application Migration Service. For more information see Setting up your AWS Organizations in the Application Migration Service user guide.
Minimum permissions
Only a user or role in the Organizations management account can configure a member account as a delegated administrator for Application Migration Service in the organization
Disabling a delegated administrator for Application Migration Service
Only an administrator in the Organizations management account can remove a delegated
administrator for Application Migration Service. You can remove the delegated administrator using the Organizations DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator CLI or SDK operation.
