Document history for the Account Management User Guide

The following table describes the documentation releases for Amazon Account Management.

Change	Description	Date
Rewrite of the close account topic	Completely overhauled the entire close account topic including adding steps for how to close member and management accounts.	February 1, 2024
End of support for adding new security challenge questions	Added new content noting that the option to add new challenge questions was removed from the Accounts page.	January 5, 2024
End of support for the `aws-portal` namespace	Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions that were previously used to manage your account (for example, `aws-portal:ModifyAccount` and `aws-portal:ViewAccount`) have reached the end of standard support.	January 1, 2024
Rewrite of the Regions topic	Completely overhauled the entire Regions topic including adding expand and collapse controls.	October 8, 2023
Relocated root user topics to the IAM User Guide	Consolidated discussion about root users into one topic, added cross reference links to root user topics that were moved to the IAM User Guide.	September 18, 2023
New section added to the primary account contact topic	Added new Phone number and email address requirements section.	September 12, 2023
New contact information APIs	Support for new `GetContactInformation` and `PutContactInformation` APIs.	July 22, 2022
Amazon Account Management now supports updating alternate contacts via the Amazon Organizations console.	You can now update your organization's alternate contacts via Amazon Organizations console using Account API permissions provided by updated Amazon Organizations managed policies.	February 22, 2022
Initial release	Initial release of the Amazon Account Management Reference Guide	September 30, 2021

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