Troubleshoot issues with the root user
Use the information here to help you troubleshoot issues related to the root user of an AWS account.
Your account might be a member of an organization in AWS Organizations. Your organizational administrator may have a service control policy (SCP) to limit the permissions of your account. SCPs impact all users, including the root user. For more information, see Service control policies in the AWS Organizations User Guide.
If you're a root user and you have lost or forgot the password for your AWS account, you can reset your password. You must know the email address used to create the AWS account, and you must have access to the email account. For more information, see Reset a lost or forgotten root user password.
When you create an AWS account, you provide an email address and password. These
are the credentials for the AWS account root user. If you aren't sure of the email address
associated with your AWS account, search for messages sent from
@signin.aws or @verify.signin.aws to any email address
for your organization that might have been used to open the AWS account.
If you know the email address but no longer have access to the email, try to recover access to the email. Use one of the following options to regain access to your email:
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If you own the domain for the email address, you can restore a deleted email address. Alternatively, you can set up a catch-all for your email account. A catch-all collects all messages sent to email addresses that no longer exist in the mail server and redirects them to another email address.
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If the email address on the account is part of your corporate email system, we recommend that you contact your IT system administrators. They might be able to help you regain access to the email.
If you're still not able to sign in to your AWS account, you can find alternate
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