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Use GetAccountSummary with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use GetAccountSummary.

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CLI
AWS CLI

To get information about IAM entity usage and IAM quotas in the current account

The following get-account-summary command returns information about the current IAM entity usage and current IAM entity quotas in the account.

aws iam get-account-summary

Output:

{
    "SummaryMap": {
        "UsersQuota": 5000,
        "GroupsQuota": 100,
        "InstanceProfiles": 6,
        "SigningCertificatesPerUserQuota": 2,
        "AccountAccessKeysPresent": 0,
        "RolesQuota": 250,
        "RolePolicySizeQuota": 10240,
        "AccountSigningCertificatesPresent": 0,
        "Users": 27,
        "ServerCertificatesQuota": 20,
        "ServerCertificates": 0,
        "AssumeRolePolicySizeQuota": 2048,
        "Groups": 7,
        "MFADevicesInUse": 1,
        "Roles": 3,
        "AccountMFAEnabled": 1,
        "MFADevices": 3,
        "GroupsPerUserQuota": 10,
        "GroupPolicySizeQuota": 5120,
        "InstanceProfilesQuota": 100,
        "AccessKeysPerUserQuota": 2,
        "Providers": 0,
        "UserPolicySizeQuota": 2048
    }
}

For more information about entity limitations, see IAM and AWS STS quotas in the AWS IAM User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example returns information about the current IAM entity usage and current IAM entity quotas in the AWS account.

Get-IAMAccountSummary

Output:


Key                                        Value
Users                                      7
GroupPolicySizeQuota                       5120
PolicyVersionsInUseQuota                   10000
ServerCertificatesQuota                    20
AccountSigningCertificatesPresent          0
AccountAccessKeysPresent                   0
Groups                                     3
UsersQuota                                 5000
RolePolicySizeQuota                        10240
UserPolicySizeQuota                        2048
GroupsPerUserQuota                         10
AssumeRolePolicySizeQuota                  2048
AttachedPoliciesPerGroupQuota              2
Roles                                      9
VersionsPerPolicyQuota                     5
GroupsQuota                                100
PolicySizeQuota                            5120
Policies                                   5
RolesQuota                                 250
ServerCertificates                         0
AttachedPoliciesPerRoleQuota               2
MFADevicesInUse                            2
PoliciesQuota                              1000
AccountMFAEnabled                          1
Providers                                  2
InstanceProfilesQuota                      100
MFADevices                                 4
AccessKeysPerUserQuota                     2
AttachedPoliciesPerUserQuota               2
SigningCertificatesPerUserQuota            2
PolicyVersionsInUse                        4
InstanceProfiles                           1
...

  • For API details, see GetAccountSummary in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository. 

def get_summary():
    """
    Gets a summary of account usage.

    :return: The summary of account usage.
    """
    try:
        summary = iam.AccountSummary()
        logger.debug(summary.summary_map)
    except ClientError:
        logger.exception("Couldn't get a summary for your account.")
        raise
    else:
        return summary.summary_map

  • For API details, see GetAccountSummary in AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.