CreateMembers - AWS Security Hub

CreateMembers

Creates a member association in Security Hub between the specified accounts and the account used to make the request, which is the administrator account. If you are integrated with Organizations, then the administrator account is designated by the organization management account.

CreateMembers is always used to add accounts that are not organization members.

For accounts that are managed using Organizations, CreateMembers is only used in the following cases:

  • Security Hub is not configured to automatically add new organization accounts.

  • The account was disassociated or deleted in Security Hub.

This action can only be used by an account that has Security Hub enabled. To enable Security Hub, you can use the EnableSecurityHub operation.

For accounts that are not organization members, you create the account association and then send an invitation to the member account. To send the invitation, you use the InviteMembers operation. If the account owner accepts the invitation, the account becomes a member account in Security Hub.

Accounts that are managed using Organizations do not receive an invitation. They automatically become a member account in Security Hub.

  • If the organization account does not have Security Hub enabled, then Security Hub and the default standards are automatically enabled. Note that Security Hub cannot be enabled automatically for the organization management account. The organization management account must enable Security Hub before the administrator account enables it as a member account.

  • For organization accounts that already have Security Hub enabled, Security Hub does not make any other changes to those accounts. It does not change their enabled standards or controls.

A permissions policy is added that permits the administrator account to view the findings generated in the member account.

To remove the association between the administrator and member accounts, use the DisassociateFromMasterAccount or DisassociateMembers operation.

Request Syntax

POST /members HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "AccountDetails": [ { "AccountId": "string", "Email": "string" } ] }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AccountDetails

The list of accounts to associate with the Security Hub administrator account. For each account, the list includes the account ID and optionally the email address.

Type: Array of AccountDetails objects

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "UnprocessedAccounts": [ { "AccountId": "string", "ProcessingResult": "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.

UnprocessedAccounts

The list of AWS accounts that were not processed. For each account, the list includes the account ID and the email address.

Type: Array of Result objects

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AccessDeniedException

You don't have permission to perform the action specified in the request.

HTTP Status Code: 403

InternalException

Internal server error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidAccessException

The account doesn't have permission to perform this action.

HTTP Status Code: 401

InvalidInputException

The request was rejected because you supplied an invalid or out-of-range value for an input parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceededException

The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current AWS account or throttling limits. The error code describes the limit exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

ResourceConflictException

The resource specified in the request conflicts with an existing resource.

HTTP Status Code: 409

See Also

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