However, you need some administrative permissions to manage AWS, for example to create users, grant and revoke permissions, enable or disable services and regions, and other activities. How can the account be administered without administrative permissions?
The solution is to create a policy that allows full IAM privileges (e.g. iam:*) on all resources. This grants effective administrator access without explicitly allowing all actions. Any user, group, or role with such a policy attached can grant any additional permissions to themselves or other IAM entities as necessary.
This module creates an IAM admin group with exactly such permissions. Add any IAM users that should be granted "effective administrator" permissions to this group.
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