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View a resource-based delegation policy with AWS Organizations

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From the management account, view your organization’s resource-based delegation policy to understand which delegated administrators have access to manage which policy types.

Minimum permissions

To view the resource-based delegation policy, you need permissions to run the following action: organizations:DescribeResourcePolicy.

AWS Management Console
To view a delegation policy
  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. Choose Settings.

  3. In the Delegated administrator for AWS Organizations section, scroll to view the full delegation policy.

AWS CLI & AWS SDKs
View a delegation policy

You can use the following command to view a delegation policy:

  • AWS CLI: describe-resource-policy

    The following example retrieves the policy.

    $ aws organizations describe-resource-policy
To view a delegation policy
  1. Sign in to the AWS Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. Choose Settings.

  3. In the Delegated administrator for AWS Organizations section, scroll to view the full delegation policy.

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