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Update your AWS account name

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Update your AWS account name - AWS Account Management

To update your AWS account's name, perform the steps in the following procedure.

Note

Changes to an AWS account can take up to four hours to propagate everywhere.

AWS Management Console
To edit your AWS account name
Note

You must sign in as the AWS account root user, which requires no additional IAM permissions. You can't perform these steps as an IAM user or role.

  1. Use your AWS account's email address and password to sign in to the AWS Management Console as your AWS account root user.

  2. In the upper right corner of the console, choose your account name or number and then choose Account.

  3. On the Account page, next to Account settings, choose Edit.

    Note

    If you don't see the Edit option, it is likely that you are not signed in as the root user for your account. You can't modify account settings while signed in as an IAM user or role.

  4. On the Account Details page, next to Account name choose Edit.

  5. On the Edit Account name page, in New account name, enter the new account name, and then choose Save changes.

    Note

    If you are unable to modify the AWS account name, check if a service control policy (SCP) exists in AWS Organizations that restricts access to account or is set to deny the iam:UpdateAccountName action.

AWS CLI & SDKs

This task isn't supported in the AWS CLI or by an API operation from one of the AWS SDKs. You can perform this task only by using the AWS Management Console.

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To edit your AWS account name
Note

You must sign in as the AWS account root user, which requires no additional IAM permissions. You can't perform these steps as an IAM user or role.

  1. Use your AWS account's email address and password to sign in to the AWS Management Console as your AWS account root user.

  2. In the upper right corner of the console, choose your account name or number and then choose Account.

  3. On the Account page, next to Account settings, choose Edit.

    Note

    If you don't see the Edit option, it is likely that you are not signed in as the root user for your account. You can't modify account settings while signed in as an IAM user or role.

  4. On the Account Details page, next to Account name choose Edit.

  5. On the Edit Account name page, in New account name, enter the new account name, and then choose Save changes.

    Note

    If you are unable to modify the AWS account name, check if a service control policy (SCP) exists in AWS Organizations that restricts access to account or is set to deny the iam:UpdateAccountName action.

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