# CreateSubscription
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Activates AWS Shield Advanced for an account.

**Note**  
For accounts that are members of an AWS Organizations organization, Shield Advanced subscriptions are billed against the organization's payer account, regardless of whether the payer account itself is subscribed. 

When you initially create a subscription, your subscription is set to be automatically renewed at the end of the existing subscription period. You can change this by submitting an `UpdateSubscription` request. 

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** InternalErrorException **   
Exception that indicates that a problem occurred with the service infrastructure. You can retry the request.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** ResourceAlreadyExistsException **   
Exception indicating the specified resource already exists. If available, this exception includes details in additional properties.     
 ** resourceType **   
The type of resource that already exists.
HTTP Status Code: 400

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/shield-2016-06-02/CreateSubscription)