AWS Migration Hub is no longer open to new customers as of November 7, 2025. For capabilities similar to AWS Migration Hub, explore AWS Transform
Setting up Strategy Recommendations
Before you use Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations for the first time, complete the following tasks:
Sign up for an AWS account
To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see Getting started with an AWS account in the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.
Strategy Recommendations users and roles
We recommend that you create two roles for Strategy Recommendations:
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To access the console, create a role with both the
AWSMigrationHubFullAccessand theAWSMigrationHubStrategyConsoleFullAccessmanaged policies attached. -
To access the Strategy Recommendations application data collector, create a role with the
AWSMigrationHubStrategyCollectormanaged policy attached.
IAM managed policies define the level of access to a service by users. The AWS Migration Hub
AWSMigrationHubFullAccess managed policy grants access to the Migration Hub console. For
more information, see Migration Hub Roles and Policies. For
information about the AWSMigrationHubStrategyConsoleFullAccess and
AWSMigrationHubStrategyCollector managed policies, see AWS managed policies for Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations.
To provide access, add permissions to your users, groups, or roles:
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Users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center:
Create a permission set. Follow the instructions in Create a permission set in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.
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Users managed in IAM through an identity provider:
Create a role for identity federation. Follow the instructions in Create a role for a third-party identity provider (federation) in the IAM User Guide.
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IAM users:
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Create a role that your user can assume. Follow the instructions in Create a role for an IAM user in the IAM User Guide.
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(Not recommended) Attach a policy directly to a user or add a user to a user group. Follow the instructions in Adding permissions to a user (console) in the IAM User Guide.
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