Using service-linked roles for AWS End User Messaging Social

AWS End User Messaging Social 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 AWS End User Messaging Social. Service-linked roles are predefined by AWS End User Messaging Social and include all the permissions that the service requires to call other AWS services on your behalf.

A service-linked role makes setting up AWS End User Messaging Social easier because you don’t have to manually add the necessary permissions. AWS End User Messaging Social defines the permissions of its service-linked roles, and unless defined otherwise, only AWS End User Messaging Social 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.

You can delete a service-linked role only after first deleting their related resources. This protects your AWS End User Messaging Social resources because you can't inadvertently remove permission to access the resources.

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 roles column. Choose a Yes with a link to view the service-linked role documentation for that service.

Service-linked role permissions for AWS End User Messaging Social

AWS End User Messaging Social uses the service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForSocialMessaging – To publish metrics and provide insights for your social message sending.

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

The role permissions policy named AWSSocialMessagingServiceRolePolicy allows AWS End User Messaging Social to complete the following actions on the specified resources:

You must configure permissions to allow your users, groups, or roles to create, edit, or delete a service-linked role. For more information, see Service-linked role permissions in the IAM User Guide.

For updates to the policy, see AWS End User Messaging Social updates to AWS managed policies.

Creating a service-linked role for AWS End User Messaging Social

You can use the IAM console to create a service-linked role with the AWSEndUserMessagingSocial - Metrics use case. In the AWS CLI or the AWS API, create a service-linked role with the social-messaging.amazonaws.com service name. For more information, see Creating a service-linked role in the IAM User Guide. If you delete this service-linked role, you can use this same process to create the role again.

You can create the service-linked role for AWS End User Messaging Social with the following AWS CLI command:

aws iam create-service-linked-role --aws-service-name social-messaging.amazonaws.com

Editing a service-linked role for AWS End User Messaging Social

AWS End User Messaging Social does not allow you to edit the AWSServiceRoleForSocialMessaging 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 IAM. For more information, see Editing a service-linked role in the IAM User Guide.

Deleting a service-linked role for AWS End User Messaging Social

If you no longer need to use a feature or service that requires a service-linked role, we recommend that you delete that role. That way you don’t have an unused entity that is not actively monitored or maintained. However, you must clean up the resources for your service-linked role before you can manually delete it.

To manually delete the service-linked role using IAM

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

Supported Regions for AWS End User Messaging Social service-linked roles

AWS End User Messaging Social supports using service-linked roles in all of the Regions where the service is available. For more information, see AWS Regions and endpoints.