Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions,
see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China
(PDF).
Viewing details of the root with Amazon Organizations
When you sign in to the organization's management account in the Amazon Organizations console, you
can view details of the administrative root.
To view the details of root, you must have the following permissions:
The root is the topmost container in the hierarchy of organizational units (OUs) and
generally behaves as an OU. However, as the container at the very top of the hierarchy,
changes to the root affect every other OU and every Amazon Web Services account in the
organization.
- Amazon Web Services Management Console
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To view the details of the
root
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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.
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Navigate to the Amazon Web Services accounts page, and choose the
Root OU (its name, not the radio button).
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The Root details page appears and displays
the details of the root.
- Amazon CLI & Amazon SDKs
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To view the details of the root
You can use one of the following commands to view details of a root:
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Amazon CLI: list-roots
The following example shows how to retrieve the details of the
root, including which policy types are currently enabled in the
organization:
$ aws organizations list-roots
{
"Roots": [
{
"Id": "r-a1b2",
"Arn": "arn:aws-cn:organizations::123456789012:root/o-aa111bb222/r-a1b2",
"Name": "Root",
"PolicyTypes": [
{
"Type": "BACKUP_POLICY",
"Status": "ENABLED"
}
]
}
]
}
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Amazon SDKs: ListRoots