# AWSLakeFormationCrossAccountManager
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**Description**: Provides cross account access to Glue resources via Lake Formation. Also grants read access to other required services such as organizations and resource access manager

`AWSLakeFormationCrossAccountManager` is an [AWS managed policy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-vs-inline.html#aws-managed-policies).

## Using this policy
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You can attach `AWSLakeFormationCrossAccountManager` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: August 04, 2020, 20:59 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:01 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSLakeFormationCrossAccountManager`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v9 (default)

The policy's default version is the version that defines the permissions for the policy. When a user or role with the policy makes a request to access an AWS resource, AWS checks the default version of the policy to determine whether to allow the request. 

## JSON policy document
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```
{
  "Version" : "2012-10-17",
  "Statement" : [
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowCreateResourceShare",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ram:CreateResourceShare"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLikeIfExists" : {
          "ram:RequestedResourceType" : [
            "glue:Table",
            "glue:Database",
            "glue:Catalog"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowManageResourceShare",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ram:UpdateResourceShare",
        "ram:DeleteResourceShare",
        "ram:AssociateResourceShare",
        "ram:DisassociateResourceShare",
        "ram:GetResourceShares"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "ram:ResourceShareName" : [
            "LakeFormation*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowManageResourceSharePermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ram:AssociateResourceSharePermission"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "ArnLike" : {
          "ram:PermissionArn" : [
            "arn:aws:ram::aws:permission/AWSRAMLFEnabled*"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowXAcctManagerPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "glue:PutResourcePolicy",
        "glue:DeleteResourcePolicy",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "ram:Get*",
        "ram:List*"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowOrganizationsPermissions",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Learn more
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+ [Create a permission set using AWS managed policies in IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/howtocreatepermissionset.html) 
+ [Adding and removing IAM identity permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_manage-attach-detach.html) 
+ [Understand versioning for IAM policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_managed-versioning.html)
+ [Get started with AWS managed policies and move toward least-privilege permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#bp-use-aws-defined-policies)