View details of an account in Amazon Organizations - Amazon Organizations
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View details of an account in Amazon Organizations

When you sign in to the organization's management account in the Amazon Organizations console, you can view details about your member accounts.

Minimum permissions

To view the details of an Amazon Web Services account, you must have the following permissions:

  • organizations:DescribeAccount

  • organizations:DescribeOrganization – required only when using the Organizations console

  • organizations:ListAccounts – required only when using the Organizations console

Amazon Web Services Management Console
To view details of an Amazon Web Services account

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. Navigate to the Amazon Web Services accounts page and choose the name of the name of the account (not the radio button) that you want to examine. If the account that you want is a child of an OU, you might have to choose the triangle icon Gray cloud icon representing cloud computing or storage services. next to an OU to expand it and see its children. Repeat until you find the account.

    The Account details box shows the information about the account.

Amazon CLI & Amazon SDKs
To view details of an Amazon Web Services account

You can use the following commands to view details of an account:

  • Amazon CLI:

    Both commands return the same details for each account included in the response.

    The following example shows how to retrieve the details about a specified account.

    $ aws organizations describe-account --account-id 123456789012

{
    "Account": {
        "Id": "123456789012",
        "Arn": "arn:aws-cn:organizations::123456789012:account/o-aa111bb222/123456789012",
        "Email": "admin@example.com",
        "Name": "Example.com Organization's Management Account",
        "Status": "ACTIVE",
        "JoinedMethod": "INVITED",
        "JoinedTimestamp": "2020-11-20T09:04:20.346000-08:00"
    }
}

  • Amazon SDKs: