In my use case, I want to access DynamoDB
table created in AWS account A and Lambda created in account B. For this I have followed many references on Internet which suggests me to use AWS assume role feature.
I have added following permission in Lambda execution role
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": {
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
"Resource": "arn:aws:iam::aws-account-A-number:role/test-db-access"
}
}
Following is the trust relationship of Lambda
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::aws-account-A-number:root"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}
In account A, I have created role(test-db-access) for allowing others to access this account and added AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
and AdministratorAccess policies. Following is the trust relationship I have added in this account
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::aws-account-B-number:role/sam-dev-test-
TestLambda-LambdaRole-1FH5IC18J0MYT"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}
Following is the Java code I have added to access Dynamo DB instance
AssumeRoleRequest assumeRequest = new AssumeRoleRequest()
.withRoleArn("arn:aws:iam::aws-account-A-number:role/test-db-access").withRoleSessionName("cross_acct_lambda").withDurationSeconds(900);
final AWSSecurityTokenService sts = AWSSecurityTokenServiceClientBuilder.standard().withRegion("eu-west-1").build();
final Credentials credentials = sts.assumeRole(assumeRequest).getCredentials();
following is the crash log coming on executing lambda
{
"errorMessage": "User: arn:aws:sts::aws-account-B-number:assumed-role/sam-dev-test-TestLambda-LambdaRole-1FH5IC18J0MYT/sam-dev-test-TestLambda-LambdaFunction-73TVOBN6VXXX is not authorized to perform: sts:AssumeRole on resource: arn:aws:iam::aws-account-A-number:role/test-db-access (Service: AWSSecurityTokenService; Status Code: 403; Error Code: AccessDenied; Request ID: 100bd3a3-3f9c-11ea-b642-d3b4d9ff35de)",
"errorType": "com.amazonaws.services.securitytoken.model.AWSSecurityTokenServiceException"
}