DescribeCreateAccountStatus - AWS Organizations

DescribeCreateAccountStatus

Retrieves the current status of an asynchronous request to create an account.

This operation can be called only from the organization's management account or by a member account that is a delegated administrator for an AWS service.

Request Syntax

{ "CreateAccountRequestId": "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.

CreateAccountRequestId

Specifies the Id value that uniquely identifies the CreateAccount request. You can get the value from the CreateAccountStatus.Id response in an earlier CreateAccount request, or from the ListCreateAccountStatus operation.

The regex pattern for a create account request ID string requires "car-" followed by from 8 to 32 lowercase letters or digits.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 36.

Pattern: ^car-[a-z0-9]{8,32}$

Required: Yes

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 the current status of an account creation request.

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

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

CreateAccountStatusNotFoundException

We can't find an create account request with the CreateAccountRequestId that you specified.

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.

  • DUPLICATE_TAG_KEY: Tag keys must be unique among the tags attached to the same entity.

  • IMMUTABLE_POLICY: You specified a policy that is managed by AWS and can't be modified.

  • INPUT_REQUIRED: You must include a value for all required parameters.

  • INVALID_EMAIL_ADDRESS_TARGET: You specified an invalid email address for the invited account owner.

  • INVALID_ENUM: You specified an invalid value.

  • INVALID_ENUM_POLICY_TYPE: You specified an invalid policy type string.

  • INVALID_FULL_NAME_TARGET: You specified a full name that contains invalid characters.

  • INVALID_LIST_MEMBER: You provided a list to a parameter that contains at least one invalid value.

  • 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.

  • INVALID_PATTERN: You provided a value that doesn't match the required pattern.

  • INVALID_PATTERN_TARGET_ID: You specified a policy target ID that doesn't match the required pattern.

  • INVALID_ROLE_NAME: You provided a role name that isn't valid. A role name can't begin with the reserved prefix AWSServiceRoleFor.

  • INVALID_SYNTAX_ORGANIZATION_ARN: You specified an invalid Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the organization.

  • INVALID_SYNTAX_POLICY_ID: You specified an invalid policy ID.

  • 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 AWS use. System tags don’t count against your tags per resource limit.

  • MAX_FILTER_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: You can specify only one filter parameter for the operation.

  • MAX_LENGTH_EXCEEDED: You provided a string parameter that is longer than allowed.

  • MAX_VALUE_EXCEEDED: You provided a numeric parameter that has a larger value than allowed.

  • MIN_LENGTH_EXCEEDED: You provided a string parameter that is shorter than allowed.

  • MIN_VALUE_EXCEEDED: You provided a numeric parameter that has a smaller value than allowed.

  • MOVING_ACCOUNT_BETWEEN_DIFFERENT_ROOTS: You can move an account only between entities in the same root.

  • TARGET_NOT_SUPPORTED: You can't perform the specified operation on that target entity.

  • UNRECOGNIZED_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL: You specified a service principal that isn't recognized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

AWS 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 AWS Organizations, see Quotas for AWS Organizations in the AWS Organizations User Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedAPIEndpointException

This action isn't available in the current AWS Region.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example shows how to request the latest status for a previous request to create an account in an organization. The specified CreateAccountRequestId comes from the response of the original call to CreateAccount. The account creation request shows by the status field that AWS Organizations successfully completed the creation of the account.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 X-Amz-Target: AWSOrganizationsV20161128.DescribeCreateAccountStatus { "CreateAccountRequestId": "car-examplecreateaccountrequestid111" }

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json { "CreateAccountStatusRequest": { "State": "SUCCEEDED", "AccountId": "555555555555", "AccountName": "Beta account", "RequestedTimestamp": 1470684478.687, "CompletedTimestamp": 1470684532.472, "Id": "car-examplecreateaccountrequestid111" } }

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: