GetPrimaryEmail - Amazon Account Management
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GetPrimaryEmail

Retrieves the Amazon Web Services email address for the specified account.

Request Syntax

POST /getPrimaryEmail HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "AccountId": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AccountId

Specifies the 12-digit account ID number of the Amazon Web Services account that you want to access or modify with this operation. To use this parameter, the caller must be an identity in the organization's management account or a delegated administrator account. The specified account ID must be a member account in the same organization. The organization must have all features enabled, and the organization must have trusted access enabled for the Account Management service, and optionally a delegated admin account assigned.

This operation can only be called from the management account or the delegated administrator account of an organization for a member account.

Note

The management account can't specify its own AccountId.

Type: String

Pattern: ^\d{12}$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "PrimaryEmail": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

PrimaryEmail

Retrieves the Amazon Web Services email address associated with the specified account.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 5. Maximum length of 64.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AccessDeniedException

The operation failed because the calling identity doesn't have the minimum required permissions.

HTTP Status Code: 403

InternalServerException

The operation failed because of an error internal to Amazon. Try your operation again later.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ResourceNotFoundException

The operation failed because it specified a resource that can't be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

TooManyRequestsException

The operation failed because it was called too frequently and exceeded a throttle limit.

HTTP Status Code: 429

ValidationException

The operation failed because one of the input parameters was invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: