Update the AWS account name, email address, or password for the root user - AWS Account Management

Update the AWS account name, email address, or password for the root user

To edit your AWS account's name, or to change the root user's password or email address, perform the steps in the following procedure. This email address and password are the credentials you use to sign in as the AWS account root user.

Note

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

AWS Management Console
To edit your AWS account name, root user password, or root user email address
Minimum permissions

To perform the following steps, you must have at least the following IAM permissions:

  • 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. You are prompted to re-authenticate for security purposes.

    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 Update account settings page, choose Edit next to the field that you want to update.

    1. For Name – On the Update your 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.

    2. For Email – On the Update your email address page, fill out the fields for New email address, Confirm new email address, and confirm your current Password. Then, choose Save changes. A verification code is sent to your new email address from no-reply@verify.signin.aws. On the Verify your new email address page, under Verification code, enter the code you received from your email, and then choose Save changes.

      Note

      It can take up to 5 minutes for the verification code to arrive. If you don’t see the email in your inbox, check your spam and junk folders.

    3. For Password – On the Update your password page, fill out the fields for Current password, New password, and Confirm new password. Then, choose Save changes. For additional guidance including best practices for setting root user passwords, see Change the password for the AWS account root user in the IAM User Guide.

  5. After you have made all of your changes, choose Done.

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.