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Amazon Account Management and Amazon Organizations

Amazon Account Management helps you manage the account information and metadata for all of the Amazon Web Services accounts in your organization. You can set, modify, or delete the alternate contact information for each of your organization's member accounts. For more information, see Using Amazon Account Management in your organization in the Amazon Account Management User Guide.

Use the following information to help you integrate Amazon Account Management with Amazon Organizations.

To enable trusted access with Account Management

For information about the permissions needed to enable trusted access, see Permissions required to enable trusted access.

Account Management requires trusted access to Amazon Organizations before you can designate a member account to be the delegated administrator for this service for your organization.

You can enable trusted access using only the Organizations tools.

You can enable trusted access by using either the Amazon Organizations console, by running a Amazon CLI command, or by calling an API operation in one of the Amazon SDKs.

Amazon Web Services Management Console

To enable trusted service access using the Organizations console

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. In the navigation pane, choose Services.

3. Choose Amazon Account Management in the list of services.

4. Choose Enable trusted access.

5. In the Enable trusted access for Amazon Account Management dialog box, type enable to confirm it, and then choose Enable trusted access.

6. If you are the administrator of only Amazon Organizations, tell the administrator of Amazon Account Management that they can now enable that service using its console to work with Amazon Organizations.

Amazon CLI, Amazon API

To enable trusted service access using the OrganizationsCLI/SDK

You can use the following Amazon CLI commands or API operations to enable trusted service access:

• Amazon CLI: enable-aws-service-access

  You can run the following command to enable Amazon Account Management as a trusted service with Organizations.

  $ aws organizations enable-aws-service-access \ 
      --service-principal account.amazonaws.com

  This command produces no output when successful.

• Amazon API: EnableAWSServiceAccess

To disable trusted access with Account Management

For information about the permissions needed to disable trusted access, see Permissions required to disable trusted access.

Only an administrator in the Amazon Organizations management account can disable trusted access with Amazon Account Management.

You can disable trusted access using only the Organizations tools.

You can disable trusted access by using either the Amazon Organizations console, by running an Organizations Amazon CLI command, or by calling an Organizations API operation in one of the Amazon SDKs.

Amazon Web Services Management Console

To disable trusted service access using the Organizations console

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. In the navigation pane, choose Services.

3. Choose Amazon Account Management in the list of services.

4. Choose Disable trusted access.

5. In the Disable trusted access for Amazon Account Management dialog box, type disable to confirm it, and then choose Disable trusted access.

6. If you are the administrator of only Amazon Organizations, tell the administrator of Amazon Account Management that they can now disable that service using its console or tools from working with Amazon Organizations.

Amazon CLI, Amazon API

To disable trusted service access using the Organizations CLI/SDK

You can use the following Amazon CLI commands or API operations to disable trusted service access:

• Amazon CLI: disable-aws-service-access

  You can run the following command to disable Amazon Account Management as a trusted service with Organizations.

  $ aws organizations disable-aws-service-access \
      --service-principal account.amazonaws.com

  This command produces no output when successful.

• Amazon API: DisableAWSServiceAccess

Enabling a delegated administrator account for Account Management

When you designate a member account to be a delegated administrator for the organization, users and roles from the designated account can manage the Amazon Web Services account metadata for other member accounts in the organization. If you don't enable a delegated admin account, then these tasks can be performed only by the organization's management account. This helps you to separate management of the organization from management of your account details.

For general instructions on how to configure a delegation policy, see Create or update a resource-based delegation policy.

Amazon CLI, Amazon API

If you want to configure a delegated administrator account using the Amazon CLI or one of the Amazon SDKs, you can use the following commands:

• Amazon CLI:

  $  aws organizations register-delegated-administrator \
      --account-id 123456789012 \
      --service-principal account.amazonaws.com

• Amazon SDK: Call the Organizations RegisterDelegatedAdministrator operation and the member account's ID number and identify the account service principal account.amazonaws.com as parameters.