education | January 15, 2026

describe-cross-account-access-role — AWS CLI 2.4.18 Command Reference

Description

Describes the IAM role that enables Amazon Inspector to access your AWS account.

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Options

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To describe the cross account access role

The following describe-cross-account-access-role command describes the IAM role that enables Amazon Inspector to access your AWS account:

aws inspector describe-cross-account-access-role

Output:

{ "registeredAt": 1458069182.826, "roleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/inspector", "valid": true}

For more information, see Setting up Amazon Inspector in the Amazon Inspector guide.