AWS Centralized Root Access Management (released re:Invent 2024) allows the management account (or a delegated admin) in AWS Organizations to:
- Perform privileged root-only actions on member accounts via
sts:AssumeRootβ without needing root credentials for those accounts. - Remove root credentials (password, MFA, signing certs, access keys) from member accounts entirely.
Once enabled, root sessions are obtained programmatically through STS, scoped to specific task policies, and are short-lived.



