PDOCS-125: AWS beta source account normalization

[jeff-matthews]

Summary

This pull request (PR) is a follow up to #457 and seeks to:

• Standardize collection strategy terminology
• Normalize the procedure for source account configuration
• Align role-assumption permissions with the implementation in the openhound-aws repo (main branch)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated the AWS collection guides to explain four strategies: organization collection from a configured source account, organization collection from the management account, a single account, or multiple independent accounts.
  • Added configuration examples and clarified the identity, role, and permission requirements for organization collection, including local and AWS-hosted setups.
  • Marked configured-source organization collection as recommended and clarified when to set source_account.
  • Updated the AWS overview to point readers to permission setup before collector configuration.

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Walkthrough

The AWS collector documentation now presents four collection strategies and updates the corresponding data-collection and permissions guidance. Organization setup is documented for both a configured source account and the management account.

Changes

AWS collection documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Collection strategy guidance docs/snippets/hounds/aws-collection-strategy.mdx, docs/openhound/collectors/aws/overview.mdx, docs/openhound/collectors/aws/collect-data.mdx, docs/openhound/collectors/aws/configure-permissions.mdx	A shared table presents configured-source-account, management-account, single-account, and multiple independent-account collection. The collection guide documents the two organization strategies and adds a configured-source-account example.
Organization role setup docs/openhound/collectors/aws/configure-permissions.mdx	The permissions guide describes source-account and management-account procedures, including identities, role assumptions, policies, and role deployment.
Single-account setup docs/openhound/collectors/aws/configure-permissions.mdx	The guide provides local and AWS-hosted workload instructions for single-account role and profile setup.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: hotnops

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 70814

The AWS permissions guide has a few gaps that can make setup fail when followed exactly. These include a missing management-role step, a missing Organizations permission, and unclear delegated-administrator instructions. The changes are documentation only and can be merged after these small fixes or with a quick follow-up.

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_{A rabbit reads the roles at dawn,
Four paths appear across the page.
Source and management accounts
Take turns among the cloud-born roles.
The guide grows clear, the tabs align,
And carrots wait beside the code.}

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Actionable comments posted: 4

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

docs/openhound/collectors/aws/configure-permissions.mdx (1)

25-25: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial

Track the missing source-account diagram tab.

The page recommends the source-account strategy. The top diagram tabs show only the management-account and single-account paths. A reader who picks the recommended strategy gets no architecture diagram. The diagram in collect-data.mdx Lines 60-82 can be the base for this tab.

Do you want me to draft the source-account diagram tab or open an issue to track it?

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Review comment at @docs/openhound/collectors/aws/configure-permissions.mdx at
line 25:
Add a source-account collection strategy diagram tab at the TODO, using the
diagram in collect-data.mdx as the base and ensuring the tab is available
alongside the management-account and single-account paths.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/openhound/collectors/aws/configure-permissions.mdx:
- Around line 425-456: Update the source-principal policy example in the “Allow
the source principal to assume both roles” step to include an optional
organizations:DescribeOrganization statement with Resource set to “*”; clarify
that readers need this permission when management_account_id is omitted.
- Line 159: Update the organization-collection guidance in the permission
prerequisites and procedure to require the AWS Organizations management account
only; remove delegated administrator as an account option so the IAM principal
and StackSets steps remain consistent with the documented commands.
- Line 630: Remove the stale WORKLOAD_ROLE_NAME replacement instruction from the
paragraph introducing collector-role-stack.yaml, since that template has no such
placeholder. Reconcile the workload-role names used in the page’s examples so
they consistently identify the same role.
- Line 477: Update the AWS permissions <Steps> to include creating the
management-account OpenHoundCollectorRole with its trust and read-only policies;
add the appropriate put-user-policy and put-role-policy commands for
openhound-assume-management-role.json to the respective tabs, and merge the
duplicate tabs while preserving both attachment options.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @docs/openhound/collectors/aws/configure-permissions.mdx:
- Line 25: Add a source-account collection strategy diagram tab at the TODO,
using the diagram in collect-data.mdx as the base and ensuring the tab is
available alongside the management-account and single-account paths.

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• docs/openhound/collectors/aws/collect-data.mdx
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• docs/openhound/collectors/aws/overview.mdx
• docs/snippets/hounds/aws-collection-strategy.mdx

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[hotnops]

I would like to add a diagram for the org configuration as well, but that can be follow up work.