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[ aws . organizations ]

create-account

Description

Creates an Amazon Web Services account that is automatically a member of the organization whose credentials made the request. This is an asynchronous request that Amazon Web Services performs in the background. Because CreateAccount operates asynchronously, it can return a successful completion message even though account initialization might still be in progress. You might need to wait a few minutes before you can successfully access the account. To check the status of the request, do one of the following:

  • Use the Id value of the CreateAccountStatus response element from this operation to provide as a parameter to the DescribeCreateAccountStatus operation.
  • Check the CloudTrail log for the CreateAccountResult event. For information on using CloudTrail with Organizations, see Logging and monitoring in Organizations in the Organizations User Guide .

The user who calls the API to create an account must have the organizations:CreateAccount permission. If you enabled all features in the organization, Organizations creates the required service-linked role named AWSServiceRoleForOrganizations . For more information, see Organizations and service-linked roles in the Organizations User Guide .

If the request includes tags, then the requester must have the organizations:TagResource permission.

Organizations preconfigures the new member account with a role (named OrganizationAccountAccessRole by default) that grants users in the management account administrator permissions in the new member account. Principals in the management account can assume the role. Organizations clones the company name and address information for the new account from the organization's management account.

This operation can be called only from the organization's management account.

For more information about creating accounts, see Creating a member account in your organization in the Organizations User Guide .

Warning

  • When you create an account in an organization using the Organizations console, API, or CLI commands, the information required for the account to operate as a standalone account, such as a payment method is not automatically collected. If you must remove an account from your organization later, you can do so only after you provide the missing information. For more information, see Considerations before removing an account from an organization in the Organizations User Guide .
  • If you get an exception that indicates that you exceeded your account limits for the organization, contact Amazon Web Services Support .
  • If you get an exception that indicates that the operation failed because your organization is still initializing, wait one hour and then try again. If the error persists, contact Amazon Web Services Support .
  • It isn't recommended to use CreateAccount to create multiple temporary accounts, and using the CreateAccount API to close accounts is subject to a 30-day usage quota. For information on the requirements and process for closing an account, see Closing a member account in your organization in the Organizations User Guide .

Note

When you create a member account with this operation, you can choose whether to create the account with the IAM User and Role Access to Billing Information switch enabled. If you enable it, IAM users and roles that have appropriate permissions can view billing information for the account. If you disable it, only the account root user can access billing information. For information about how to disable this switch for an account, see Granting access to your billing information and tools .

See also: AWS API Documentation

Synopsis

  create-account
--email <value>
--account-name <value>
[--role-name <value>]
[--iam-user-access-to-billing <value>]
[--tags <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]

Options

--email (string)

The email address of the owner to assign to the new member account. This email address must not already be associated with another Amazon Web Services account. You must use a valid email address to complete account creation.

The rules for a valid email address:

  • The address must be a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 64 characters long.
  • All characters must be 7-bit ASCII characters.
  • There must be one and only one @ symbol, which separates the local name from the domain name.
  • The local name can't contain any of the following characters: whitespace, " ' ( ) < > [ ] : ; , | % &
  • The local name can't begin with a dot (.)
  • The domain name can consist of only the characters [a-z],[A-Z],[0-9], hyphen (-), or dot (.)
  • The domain name can't begin or end with a hyphen (-) or dot (.)
  • The domain name must contain at least one dot

You can't access the root user of the account or remove an account that was created with an invalid email address.

--account-name (string)

The friendly name of the member account.

--role-name (string)

The name of an IAM role that Organizations automatically preconfigures in the new member account. This role trusts the management account, allowing users in the management account to assume the role, as permitted by the management account administrator. The role has administrator permissions in the new member account.

If you don't specify this parameter, the role name defaults to OrganizationAccountAccessRole .

For more information about how to use this role to access the member account, see the following links:

The regex pattern that is used to validate this parameter. The pattern can include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits with no spaces, and any of the following characters: =,.@-

--iam-user-access-to-billing (string)

If set to ALLOW , the new account enables IAM users to access account billing information if they have the required permissions. If set to DENY , only the root user of the new account can access account billing information. For more information, see About IAM access to the Billing and Cost Management console in the Amazon Web Services Billing and Cost Management User Guide .

If you don't specify this parameter, the value defaults to ALLOW , and IAM users and roles with the required permissions can access billing information for the new account.

Possible values:

  • ALLOW
  • DENY

--tags (list)

A list of tags that you want to attach to the newly created account. For each tag in the list, you must specify both a tag key and a value. You can set the value to an empty string, but you can't set it to null . For more information about tagging, see Tagging Organizations resources in the Organizations User Guide.

Note

If any one of the tags is not valid or if you exceed the maximum allowed number of tags for an account, then the entire request fails and the account is not created.

(structure)

A custom key-value pair associated with a resource within your organization.

You can attach tags to any of the following organization resources.

  • Amazon Web Services account
  • Organizational unit (OU)
  • Organization root
  • Policy

Key -> (string)

The key identifier, or name, of the tag.

Value -> (string)

The string value that's associated with the key of the tag. You can set the value of a tag to an empty string, but you can't set the value of a tag to null.

Shorthand Syntax:

Key=string,Value=string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Key": "string",
    "Value": "string"
  }
  ...
]

--cli-input-json (string) Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command's default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

  • json
  • text
  • table

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

  • on
  • off
  • auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To create a member account that is automatically part of the organization

The following example shows how to create a member account in an organization. The member account is configured with the name Production Account and the email address of susan@example.com. Organizations automatically creates an IAM role using the default name of OrganizationAccountAccessRole because the roleName parameter is not specified. Also, the setting that allows IAM users or roles with sufficient permissions to access account billing data is set to the default value of ALLOW because the IamUserAccessToBilling parameter is not specified. Organizations automatically sends Susan a "Welcome to AWS" email:

aws organizations create-account --email susan@example.com --account-name "Production Account"

The output includes a request object that shows that the status is now IN_PROGRESS:

{
        "CreateAccountStatus": {
                "State": "IN_PROGRESS",
                "Id": "car-examplecreateaccountrequestid111"
        }
}

You can later query the current status of the request by providing the Id response value to the describe-create-account-status command as the value for the create-account-request-id parameter.

For more information, see Creating an AWS Account in Your Organization in the AWS Organizations Users Guide.

Output

CreateAccountStatus -> (structure)

A structure that contains details about the request to create an account. This response structure might not be fully populated when you first receive it because account creation is an asynchronous process. You can pass the returned CreateAccountStatus ID as a parameter to DescribeCreateAccountStatus to get status about the progress of the request at later times. You can also check the CloudTrail log for the CreateAccountResult event. For more information, see Logging and monitoring in Organizations in the Organizations User Guide .

Id -> (string)

The unique identifier (ID) that references this request. You get this value from the response of the initial CreateAccount request to create the account.

The regex pattern for a create account request ID string requires "car-" followed by from 8 to 32 lowercase letters or digits.

AccountName -> (string)

The account name given to the account when it was created.

State -> (string)

The status of the asynchronous request to create an Amazon Web Services account.

RequestedTimestamp -> (timestamp)

The date and time that the request was made for the account creation.

CompletedTimestamp -> (timestamp)

The date and time that the account was created and the request completed.

AccountId -> (string)

If the account was created successfully, the unique identifier (ID) of the new account.

The regex pattern for an account ID string requires exactly 12 digits.

GovCloudAccountId -> (string)

If the account was created successfully, the unique identifier (ID) of the new account in the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Region.

FailureReason -> (string)

If the request failed, a description of the reason for the failure.

  • ACCOUNT_LIMIT_EXCEEDED: The account couldn't be created because you reached the limit on the number of accounts in your organization.
  • CONCURRENT_ACCOUNT_MODIFICATION: You already submitted a request with the same information.
  • EMAIL_ALREADY_EXISTS: The account could not be created because another Amazon Web Services account with that email address already exists.
  • FAILED_BUSINESS_VALIDATION: The Amazon Web Services account that owns your organization failed to receive business license validation.
  • GOVCLOUD_ACCOUNT_ALREADY_EXISTS: The account in the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Region could not be created because this Region already includes an account with that email address.
  • IDENTITY_INVALID_BUSINESS_VALIDATION: The Amazon Web Services account that owns your organization can't complete business license validation because it doesn't have valid identity data.
  • INVALID_ADDRESS: The account could not be created because the address you provided is not valid.
  • INVALID_EMAIL: The account could not be created because the email address you provided is not valid.
  • INVALID_PAYMENT_INSTRUMENT: The Amazon Web Services account that owns your organization does not have a supported payment method associated with the account. Amazon Web Services does not support cards issued by financial institutions in Russia or Belarus. For more information, see Managing your Amazon Web Services payments .
  • INTERNAL_FAILURE: The account could not be created because of an internal failure. Try again later. If the problem persists, contact Amazon Web Services Customer Support.
  • MISSING_BUSINESS_VALIDATION: The Amazon Web Services account that owns your organization has not received Business Validation.
  • MISSING_PAYMENT_INSTRUMENT: You must configure the management account with a valid payment method, such as a credit card.
  • PENDING_BUSINESS_VALIDATION: The Amazon Web Services account that owns your organization is still in the process of completing business license validation.
  • UNKNOWN_BUSINESS_VALIDATION: The Amazon Web Services account that owns your organization has an unknown issue with business license validation.