Document history for the Account Management User Guide

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Document history for the Account Management User Guide - AWS Account Management

The following table describes the documentation releases for AWS Account Management.

Change	Description	Date
New account name APIs	Support for new `GetAccountInformation`, and `PutAccountName` APIs to view or modify an account name.	April 22, 2025
End of support for editing security challenge questions	Removed the Edit your security challenge questions topic from the guide since support has ended.	January 6, 2025
New primary email APIs	Support for new `GetPrimaryEmail`, `StartPrimaryEmailUpdate`, and `AcceptPrimaryEmailUpdate` APIs to centrally update the root user email address for any member account in AWS Organizations. For more information, see Updating the root user email address for a member account in the AWS Organizations User Guide.	June 6, 2024
Rewrite of the close account topic	Completely overhauled the entire close account topic including adding steps for how to close member and management accounts.	February 1, 2024
End of support for adding new security challenge questions	Added new content noting that the option to add new challenge questions was removed from the Accounts page.	January 5, 2024
End of support for the `aws-portal` namespace	AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions that were previously used to manage your account (for example, `aws-portal:ModifyAccount` and `aws-portal:ViewAccount`) have reached the end of standard support.	January 1, 2024
Rewrite of the Regions topic	Completely overhauled the entire Regions topic including adding expand and collapse controls.	October 8, 2023
Relocated root user topics to the IAM User Guide	Consolidated discussion about root users into one topic, added cross reference links to root user topics that were moved to the IAM User Guide.	September 18, 2023
New section added to the primary account contact topic	Added new Phone number and email address requirements section.	September 12, 2023
New contact information APIs	Support for new `GetContactInformation` and `PutContactInformation` APIs.	July 22, 2022
AWS Account Management now supports updating alternate contacts via the AWS Organizations console.	You can now update your organization's alternate contacts via AWS Organizations console using Account API permissions provided by updated AWS Organizations managed policies.	February 8, 2022
Initial release	Initial release of the AWS Account Management Reference Guide	September 30, 2021