CreateAccount
Creates an Amazon Web Services account that is automatically a member of the organization whose
credentials made the request. This is an asynchronous request that Amazon performs in the
background. Because CreateAccount
operates asynchronously, it can return a
successful completion message even though account initialization might still be in
progress. You might need to wait a few minutes before you can successfully access the
account. To check the status of the request, do one of the following:
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Use the
Id
value of theCreateAccountStatus
response element from this operation to provide as a parameter to the DescribeCreateAccountStatus operation. -
Check the CloudTrail log for the
CreateAccountResult
event. For information on using CloudTrail with Amazon Organizations, see Logging and monitoring in Amazon Organizations in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
The user who calls the API to create an account must have the
organizations:CreateAccount
permission. If you enabled all features in
the organization, Amazon Organizations creates the required service-linked role named
AWSServiceRoleForOrganizations
. For more information, see Amazon Organizations and service-linked roles in the
Amazon Organizations User Guide.
If the request includes tags, then the requester must have the
organizations:TagResource
permission.
Amazon Organizations preconfigures the new member account with a role (named
OrganizationAccountAccessRole
by default) that grants users in the
management account administrator permissions in the new member account. Principals in
the management account can assume the role. Amazon Organizations clones the company name and address
information for the new account from the organization's management account.
This operation can be called only from the organization's management account.
For more information about creating accounts, see Creating a member account in your organization in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
Important
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When you create an account in an organization using the Amazon Organizations console, API, or Amazon CLI commands, the information required for the account to operate as a standalone account, such as a payment method is not automatically collected. If you must remove an account from your organization later, you can do so only after you provide the missing information. For more information, see Considerations before removing an account from an organization in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
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If you get an exception that indicates that you exceeded your account limits for the organization, contact Amazon Support
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If you get an exception that indicates that the operation failed because your organization is still initializing, wait one hour and then try again. If the error persists, contact Amazon Support
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It isn't recommended to use
CreateAccount
to create multiple temporary accounts, and using theCreateAccount
API to close accounts is subject to a 30-day usage quota. For information on the requirements and process for closing an account, see Closing a member account in your organization in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
Note
When you create a member account with this operation, you can choose whether to create the account with the IAM User and Role Access to Billing Information switch enabled. If you enable it, IAM users and roles that have appropriate permissions can view billing information for the account. If you disable it, only the account root user can access billing information. For information about how to disable this switch for an account, see Granting access to your billing information and tools.
Request Syntax
{
"AccountName": "string
",
"Email": "string
",
"IamUserAccessToBilling": "string
",
"RoleName": "string
",
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "string
",
"Value": "string
"
}
]
}
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- AccountName
-
The friendly name of the member account.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 50.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\u007E]+
Required: Yes
-
The email address of the owner to assign to the new member account. This email address must not already be associated with another Amazon Web Services account. You must use a valid email address to complete account creation.
The rules for a valid email address:
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The address must be a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 64 characters long.
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All characters must be 7-bit ASCII characters.
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There must be one and only one @ symbol, which separates the local name from the domain name.
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The local name can't contain any of the following characters:
whitespace, " ' ( ) < > [ ] : ; , \ | % &
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The local name can't begin with a dot (.)
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The domain name can consist of only the characters [a-z],[A-Z],[0-9], hyphen (-), or dot (.)
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The domain name can't begin or end with a hyphen (-) or dot (.)
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The domain name must contain at least one dot
You can't access the root user of the account or remove an account that was created with an invalid email address.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 6. Maximum length of 64.
Pattern:
See rules in parameter description
Required: Yes
-
- IamUserAccessToBilling
-
If set to
ALLOW
, the new account enables IAM users to access account billing information if they have the required permissions. If set toDENY
, only the root user of the new account can access account billing information. For more information, see About IAM access to the Billing and Cost Management console in the Amazon Billing and Cost Management User Guide.If you don't specify this parameter, the value defaults to
ALLOW
, and IAM users and roles with the required permissions can access billing information for the new account.Type: String
Valid Values:
ALLOW | DENY
Required: No
- RoleName
-
The name of an IAM role that Amazon Organizations automatically preconfigures in the new member account. This role trusts the management account, allowing users in the management account to assume the role, as permitted by the management account administrator. The role has administrator permissions in the new member account.
If you don't specify this parameter, the role name defaults to
OrganizationAccountAccessRole
.For more information about how to use this role to access the member account, see the following links:
-
Creating the OrganizationAccountAccessRole in an invited member account in the Amazon Organizations User Guide
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Steps 2 and 3 in IAM Tutorial: Delegate access across Amazon Web Services accounts using IAM roles in the IAM User Guide
The regex pattern
that is used to validate this parameter. The pattern can include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits with no spaces, and any of the following characters: =,.@- Type: String
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 64.
Pattern:
[\w+=,.@-]{1,64}
Required: No
-
- Tags
-
A list of tags that you want to attach to the newly created account. For each tag in the list, you must specify both a tag key and a value. You can set the value to an empty string, but you can't set it to
null
. For more information about tagging, see Tagging Amazon Organizations resources in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.Note
If any one of the tags is not valid or if you exceed the maximum allowed number of tags for an account, then the entire request fails and the account is not created.
Type: Array of Tag objects
Required: No
Response Syntax
{
"CreateAccountStatus": {
"AccountId": "string",
"AccountName": "string",
"CompletedTimestamp": number,
"FailureReason": "string",
"GovCloudAccountId": "string",
"Id": "string",
"RequestedTimestamp": number,
"State": "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.
- CreateAccountStatus
-
A structure that contains details about the request to create an account. This response structure might not be fully populated when you first receive it because account creation is an asynchronous process. You can pass the returned
CreateAccountStatus
ID as a parameter to DescribeCreateAccountStatus to get status about the progress of the request at later times. You can also check the CloudTrail log for theCreateAccountResult
event. For more information, see Logging and monitoring in Amazon Organizations in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.Type: CreateAccountStatus object
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- AccessDeniedException
-
You don't have permissions to perform the requested operation. The user or role that is making the request must have at least one IAM permissions policy attached that grants the required permissions. For more information, see Access Management in the IAM User Guide.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- AWSOrganizationsNotInUseException
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Your account isn't a member of an organization. To make this request, you must use the credentials of an account that belongs to an organization.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ConcurrentModificationException
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The target of the operation is currently being modified by a different request. Try again later.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ConstraintViolationException
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Performing this operation violates a minimum or maximum value limit. For example, attempting to remove the last service control policy (SCP) from an OU or root, inviting or creating too many accounts to the organization, or attaching too many policies to an account, OU, or root. This exception includes a reason that contains additional information about the violated limit:
Note
Some of the reasons in the following list might not be applicable to this specific API or operation.
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ACCOUNT_CANNOT_LEAVE_ORGANIZATION: You attempted to remove the management account from the organization. You can't remove the management account. Instead, after you remove all member accounts, delete the organization itself.
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ACCOUNT_CANNOT_LEAVE_WITHOUT_PHONE_VERIFICATION: You attempted to remove an account from the organization that doesn't yet have enough information to exist as a standalone account. This account requires you to first complete phone verification. Follow the steps at Removing a member account from your organization in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
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ACCOUNT_CREATION_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to exceed the number of accounts that you can create in one day.
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ACCOUNT_CREATION_NOT_COMPLETE: Your account setup isn't complete or your account isn't fully active. You must complete the account setup before you create an organization.
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ACCOUNT_NUMBER_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to exceed the limit on the number of accounts in an organization. If you need more accounts, contact Amazon Support
to request an increase in your limit. Or the number of invitations that you tried to send would cause you to exceed the limit of accounts in your organization. Send fewer invitations or contact Amazon Support to request an increase in the number of accounts.
Note
Deleted and closed accounts still count toward your limit.
Important
If you get this exception when running a command immediately after creating the organization, wait one hour and try again. After an hour, if the command continues to fail with this error, contact Amazon Support
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CANNOT_REGISTER_SUSPENDED_ACCOUNT_AS_DELEGATED_ADMINISTRATOR: You cannot register a suspended account as a delegated administrator.
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CANNOT_REGISTER_MASTER_AS_DELEGATED_ADMINISTRATOR: You attempted to register the management account of the organization as a delegated administrator for an Amazon service integrated with Organizations. You can designate only a member account as a delegated administrator.
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CANNOT_CLOSE_MANAGEMENT_ACCOUNT: You attempted to close the management account. To close the management account for the organization, you must first either remove or close all member accounts in the organization. Follow standard account closure process using root credentials.
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CANNOT_REMOVE_DELEGATED_ADMINISTRATOR_FROM_ORG: You attempted to remove an account that is registered as a delegated administrator for a service integrated with your organization. To complete this operation, you must first deregister this account as a delegated administrator.
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CLOSE_ACCOUNT_QUOTA_EXCEEDED: You have exceeded close account quota for the past 30 days.
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CLOSE_ACCOUNT_REQUESTS_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to exceed the number of accounts that you can close at a time.
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CREATE_ORGANIZATION_IN_BILLING_MODE_UNSUPPORTED_REGION: To create an organization in the specified region, you must enable all features mode.
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DELEGATED_ADMINISTRATOR_EXISTS_FOR_THIS_SERVICE: You attempted to register an Amazon account as a delegated administrator for an Amazon service that already has a delegated administrator. To complete this operation, you must first deregister any existing delegated administrators for this service.
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EMAIL_VERIFICATION_CODE_EXPIRED: The email verification code is only valid for a limited period of time. You must resubmit the request and generate a new verfication code.
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HANDSHAKE_RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to exceed the number of handshakes that you can send in one day.
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INVALID_PAYMENT_INSTRUMENT: You cannot remove an account because no supported payment method is associated with the account. Amazon does not support cards issued by financial institutions in Russia or Belarus. For more information, see Managing your Amazon payments.
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MASTER_ACCOUNT_ADDRESS_DOES_NOT_MATCH_MARKETPLACE: To create an account in this organization, you first must migrate the organization's management account to the marketplace that corresponds to the management account's address. All accounts in an organization must be associated with the same marketplace.
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MASTER_ACCOUNT_MISSING_BUSINESS_LICENSE: Applies only to the Amazon Regions in China. To create an organization, the master must have a valid business license. For more information, contact customer support.
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MASTER_ACCOUNT_MISSING_CONTACT_INFO: To complete this operation, you must first provide a valid contact address and phone number for the management account. Then try the operation again.
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MASTER_ACCOUNT_NOT_GOVCLOUD_ENABLED: To complete this operation, the management account must have an associated account in the Amazon GovCloud (US-West) Region. For more information, see Amazon Organizations in the Amazon GovCloud User Guide.
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MASTER_ACCOUNT_PAYMENT_INSTRUMENT_REQUIRED: To create an organization with this management account, you first must associate a valid payment instrument, such as a credit card, with the account. For more information, see Considerations before removing an account from an organization in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
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MAX_DELEGATED_ADMINISTRATORS_FOR_SERVICE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to register more delegated administrators than allowed for the service principal.
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MAX_POLICY_TYPE_ATTACHMENT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to exceed the number of policies of a certain type that can be attached to an entity at one time.
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MAX_TAG_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You have exceeded the number of tags allowed on this resource.
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MEMBER_ACCOUNT_PAYMENT_INSTRUMENT_REQUIRED: To complete this operation with this member account, you first must associate a valid payment instrument, such as a credit card, with the account. For more information, see Considerations before removing an account from an organization in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
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MIN_POLICY_TYPE_ATTACHMENT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to detach a policy from an entity that would cause the entity to have fewer than the minimum number of policies of a certain type required.
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ORGANIZATION_NOT_IN_ALL_FEATURES_MODE: You attempted to perform an operation that requires the organization to be configured to support all features. An organization that supports only consolidated billing features can't perform this operation.
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OU_DEPTH_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to create an OU tree that is too many levels deep.
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OU_NUMBER_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to exceed the number of OUs that you can have in an organization.
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POLICY_CONTENT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to create a policy that is larger than the maximum size.
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POLICY_NUMBER_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You attempted to exceed the number of policies that you can have in an organization.
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SERVICE_ACCESS_NOT_ENABLED: You attempted to register a delegated administrator before you enabled service access. Call the
EnableAWSServiceAccess
API first. -
TAG_POLICY_VIOLATION: You attempted to create or update a resource with tags that are not compliant with the tag policy requirements for this account.
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WAIT_PERIOD_ACTIVE: After you create an Amazon Web Services account, you must wait until at least seven days after the account was created. Invited accounts aren't subject to this waiting period.
HTTP Status Code: 400
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- FinalizingOrganizationException
-
Amazon Organizations couldn't perform the operation because your organization hasn't finished initializing. This can take up to an hour. Try again later. If after one hour you continue to receive this error, contact Amazon Support
. HTTP Status Code: 400
- InvalidInputException
-
The requested operation failed because you provided invalid values for one or more of the request parameters. This exception includes a reason that contains additional information about the violated limit:
Note
Some of the reasons in the following list might not be applicable to this specific API or operation.
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DUPLICATE_TAG_KEY: Tag keys must be unique among the tags attached to the same entity.
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IMMUTABLE_POLICY: You specified a policy that is managed by Amazon and can't be modified.
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INPUT_REQUIRED: You must include a value for all required parameters.
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INVALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS_TARGET: You specified an invalid email address for the invited account owner.
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INVALID_ENUM: You specified an invalid value.
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INVALID_ENUM_POLICY_TYPE: You specified an invalid policy type string.
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INVALID_FULL_NAME_TARGET: You specified a full name that contains invalid characters.
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INVALID_LIST_MEMBER: You provided a list to a parameter that contains at least one invalid value.
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INVALID_PAGINATION_TOKEN: Get the value for the
NextToken
parameter from the response to a previous call of the operation. -
INVALID_PARTY_TYPE_TARGET: You specified the wrong type of entity (account, organization, or email) as a party.
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INVALID_PATTERN: You provided a value that doesn't match the required pattern.
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INVALID_PATTERN_TARGET_ID: You specified a policy target ID that doesn't match the required pattern.
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INVALID_PRINCIPAL: You specified an invalid principal element in the policy.
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INVALID_ROLE_NAME: You provided a role name that isn't valid. A role name can't begin with the reserved prefix
AWSServiceRoleFor
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INVALID_SYNTAX_ORGANIZATION_ARN: You specified an invalid Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the organization.
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INVALID_SYNTAX_POLICY_ID: You specified an invalid policy ID.
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INVALID_SYSTEM_TAGS_PARAMETER: You specified a tag key that is a system tag. You can’t add, edit, or delete system tag keys because they're reserved for Amazon use. System tags don’t count against your tags per resource limit.
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MAX_FILTER_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You can specify only one filter parameter for the operation.
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MAX_LENGTH_EXCEEDED: You provided a string parameter that is longer than allowed.
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MAX_VALUE_EXCEEDED: You provided a numeric parameter that has a larger value than allowed.
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MIN_LENGTH_EXCEEDED: You provided a string parameter that is shorter than allowed.
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MIN_VALUE_EXCEEDED: You provided a numeric parameter that has a smaller value than allowed.
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MOVING_ACCOUNT_BETWEEN_DIFFERENT_ROOTS: You can move an account only between entities in the same root.
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NON_DETACHABLE_POLICY: You can't detach this Amazon Managed Policy.
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TARGET_NOT_SUPPORTED: You can't perform the specified operation on that target entity.
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UNRECOGNIZED_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL: You specified a service principal that isn't recognized.
HTTP Status Code: 400
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- ServiceException
-
Amazon Organizations can't complete your request because of an internal service error. Try again later.
HTTP Status Code: 500
- TooManyRequestsException
-
You have sent too many requests in too short a period of time. The quota helps protect against denial-of-service attacks. Try again later.
For information about quotas that affect Amazon Organizations, see Quotas for Amazon Organizations in the Amazon Organizations User Guide.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- UnsupportedAPIEndpointException
-
This action isn't available in the current Amazon Region.
HTTP Status Code: 400
Examples
Example
The following example shows how to create a member account in an organization.
The member account is configured with the name Production Account
and the email address of anaya@example.com
. Amazon Organizations automatically
creates an IAM role using the default name of
OrganizationAccountAccessRole
because the roleName
parameter isn't specified. Also, the setting that allows IAM users or roles
with sufficient permissions to access account billing data is set to the default
value of ALLOW
because the IamUserAccessToBilling
parameter isn't specified. Amazon Organizations automatically sends Anaya a "Welcome to
Amazon" email.
Sample Request
POST / HTTP/1.1
X-Amz-Target: AWSOrganizationsV20161128.CreateAccount
{ "Email": "anaya@example.com", "AccountName": "Production Account" }
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"CreateAccountStatus": {
"State": "IN_PROGRESS",
"Id": "car-examplecreateaccountrequestid111"
}
}
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: