# AWSSSOMasterAccountAdministrator
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**Description**: Provides access within AWS SSO to manage AWS Organizations master and member accounts and cloud application

`AWSSSOMasterAccountAdministrator` 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 `AWSSSOMasterAccountAdministrator` to your users, groups, and roles.

## Policy details
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+ **Type**: AWS managed policy 
+ **Creation time**: June 27, 2018, 20:36 UTC 
+ **Edited time:** February 12, 2026, 18:01 UTC
+ **ARN**: `arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AWSSSOMasterAccountAdministrator`

## Policy version
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**Policy version:** v13 (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" : "AWSSSOCreateSLR",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/sso.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForSSO",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "iam:AWSServiceName" : "sso.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AWSSSOMasterAccountAdministrator",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : "iam:PassRole",
      "Resource" : "arn:aws:iam::*:role/aws-service-role/sso.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForSSO",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "iam:PassedToService" : "sso.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AWSSSOMemberAccountAdministrator",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "ds:DescribeTrusts",
        "ds:UnauthorizeApplication",
        "ds:DescribeDirectories",
        "ds:AuthorizeApplication",
        "iam:ListPolicies",
        "organizations:EnableAWSServiceAccess",
        "organizations:ListRoots",
        "organizations:ListAccounts",
        "organizations:ListOrganizationalUnitsForParent",
        "organizations:ListAccountsForParent",
        "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
        "organizations:ListChildren",
        "organizations:DescribeAccount",
        "organizations:ListParents",
        "organizations:ListDelegatedAdministrators",
        "sso:*",
        "sso-directory:*",
        "identitystore:*",
        "identitystore-auth:*",
        "ds:CreateAlias",
        "access-analyzer:ValidatePolicy",
        "signin:CreateTrustedIdentityPropagationApplicationForConsole",
        "signin:ListTrustedIdentityPropagationApplicationsForConsole"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*"
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AWSSSOManageDelegatedAdministrator",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "organizations:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator",
        "organizations:DeregisterDelegatedAdministrator"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringEquals" : {
          "organizations:ServicePrincipal" : "sso.amazonaws.com"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowDeleteSyncProfile",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "identity-sync:DeleteSyncProfile"
      ],
      "Resource" : [
        "arn:aws:identity-sync:*:*:profile/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowKMSKeyUseViaAWSIAMIdentityCenterService",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext",
        "kms:Encrypt",
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:ViaService" : "sso.*.amazonaws.com",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:sso:instance-arn" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowKMSKeyUseViaAWSIdentityStoreService",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:GenerateDataKeyWithoutPlaintext",
        "kms:Encrypt",
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource" : "*",
      "Condition" : {
        "StringLike" : {
          "kms:ViaService" : "identitystore.*.amazonaws.com",
          "kms:EncryptionContext:aws:identitystore:identitystore-arn" : "*"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid" : "AllowKMSKeyDiscovery",
      "Effect" : "Allow",
      "Action" : [
        "kms:ListAliases",
        "kms:DescribeKey"
      ],
      "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)