Organization Rescan IAM Permissions

To allow Veeam Backup for AWS to collect information on AWS Organizations, IAM roles specified in the organization settings must meet the following requirements:

  1. The backup appliance must be granted permissions to assume the IAM roles. For more information on the requirements for adding IAM roles, see Before You Begin.
  1. The IAM roles must be granted the following permissions:

{

   "Version": "2012-10-17",

   "Statement": [

       {

           "Effect": "Allow",

           "Action": [

               "iam:GetContextKeysForPrincipalPolicy",

               "iam:ListAccountAliases",

               "iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy",

               "organizations:DescribeAccount",

               "organizations:DescribeOrganizationalUnit",

               "organizations:DescribeOrganization",

               "organizations:ListChildren",

               "organizations:ListRoots"

           ],

           "Resource": "*"

       }

   ]

}

 

To learn how to create IAM roles and assign them the required permissions, see Appendix A. Creating IAM Roles in AWS.

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