Establish Trusted Access in AWS Organizations

In this step, we will create a trusted relationship between AWS Organizations and the service principals for AWS CloudFormation and AWS Config.

This setup enables:

  • Multi-account capabilities – Trusted access allows AWS services to operate across multiple accounts in your organization without manually configuring permissions in each account.
  • Centralized management – Services like AWS Config, CloudTrail, and Security Hub can be deployed and managed organization-wide from the management account.
  • Service-linked roles – Trusted access automatically creates the service-linked roles required in member accounts.

Contents

3.1. Enable trusted access for AWS Config
3.2. Enable trusted access for AWS CloudFormation